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Military’s Invasion of Privacy
With more and more unmanned drones flying overhead, has the President or Congress told you that the U.S. Air Force, like the CIA, does not have the authority to conduct domestic...
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Selling Out to Big Brother
The most sacred principle of American life, honored in our Constitution and throughout our history, is that of privacy—or as Larry Flynt puts it, “the right to be left alone.”...
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Inside the Koch Brothers’ War Room
A thank-you card seems like the appropriate response for having reaped a cool $18 billion under the administration of President Barack Obama, especially during the worst economy...
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Porn From The Past
This appealing lass probably got herself all worked up by watching an episode of The Perry Como Show. Thanks to B.E. of Roseville, Michigan, for this vintage photo. Send your smut of yesteryear to:...
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These Are People Who Died
I read the obituaries every day. I’ve done it for as long as I can remember. For my entire life, I have been afraid of death. I just can’t comprehend what it is like to not exist. My...
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Becoming A Lifelong Learner
All the growing furor about the vital need to reform education is based entirely on changing what happens in schools: making sure kids can go on to college, evaluating teachers to get rid...
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Immoral Values Republican
There’s hope yet for Larry Flynt. If a total sleazebag like Newt Gingrich can be embraced by the so-called Christian Right the way he has been in the Republican primaries, then a mere...
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Boobs and Bloodshed
When Eli Roth’s Hostel was released theatrically in 2006, it shocked mainstream audiences. An early entrant in the “torture porn” horror genre, the flick was an instant hit, going number one...
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10 Americans Who Should Be Locked Up
For every scumbag doing time, there’s a bunch more still at large. Here’s a roundup of rogues still making a mockery of our justice system. Ben Roethlisberger The...
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Eaten Out Or Eaten Alive!
Our Halloween treat skewers everything from pervos and politicos to a divine mass murderer and backdoor...
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Holliston’s House of Horrors
If you’re seeing monsters, puking on your friends, getting paid to be sexually abused by bisexual rock stars and watching your buddy’s head explode, you’re either in L.A....
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50 Shades of Pat Robertson
Thumping something more heavenly than a Bible, the TV preacher gets sucked into the deep, dark recesses of...
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Porn From The Past
These erotic playing cards give us insight into life before the Internet, when porn was much harder to find. If you could get your hands on a deck of nudie cards like these, it was a real coup. Unless, of...
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Jazz Is Still Kickin’
I began reporting on jazz and knowing its key players in the late 1940s, also learning life lessons from them ever since. Tenor saxophonist Ben Webster advised, “Listen, kid, when the rhythm...
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Stalkers Paradise
The snoopers are our new best friends? Unbelievable but true when, for the first time in human history, it is the norm for people to volunteer to be spied upon. Folks eagerly pay for the very apps that betray...
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Naked Or Nude?
Are you comfortable being naked, or would you rather be nude? Who would you rather be photographed by: an artist or a pornographer? Nudity is everywhere, but the hangups continue. Censorship wars are waged...
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Lily Figuera’s Webcam World
A hardworking Internet vixen gives us the inside story about how she makes more money than most of us—without even getting out of bed. Born in the Philippines, Lily Figuera came to the...
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Jimmy Pardo: Still Hungry
What does it take to be the perfect warm-up guy, the comic who comes out and gets people in the mood before the star shows up? We don’t know. But whatever it is, Conan O’Brien’s...
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Deadly Cycle
It’s one of the world’s most elusive holy grails: lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians. From a distance the conflict seems absurd. But for the people who live it day to day, the reasons...
