If you needed a really explicit reason to believe that humanity is embarrassing, wikiHow formalizes it in a judgment-free zone. After a breakup, a writer turns to wikiHow, a network of self-help spawning a community of anonymous care. ↩︎ Real Life, posted Sept. 30, 2016 The Catalog of Human
“The Führer Often Described his Defeats at Stalingrad and in North Africa as Great Victories” In no particular order, four Hitler-related things reported about Donald Trump and his family by Marie Brenner for Vanity Fair in 1990: 1) As an in-joke, Jeffrey Walter, a cousin and Trump Organization
The Chicago Police Department has a massive, eight-digit, off-the-books bank account dedicated to the proceeds from stuff that it seizes from people, like cars from disabled elderly black women whose kids get caught with drugs. ↩︎ posted Sept. 29, 2016 Cash on Wheels The five municipal governments that
The Climate Math Meets Methane One of the biggest questions facing American energy policy is the role of natural gas. The Clean Power Plan swaps gas in for coal, but that has led to higher methane emissions than previously projected. Natural gas can be cheaply had through domestic fracking, and
House Intelligence Committee Asks Obama to Just Say No House Intelligence Committee sends a bipartisan letter to President Obama urging him not to pardon Snowden, reminding him that he said in a news conference in 2013, “I don’t think Mr. Snowden was a patriot.” ↩︎ posted Sept. 16, 2016 The
How to Kill Kim Jong Un, if Necessary Giving confirmation to what had long been assumed, South Korean Minister of Defense Han Min-koo admits that there is an official government plan to assassinate Kim Jong-un in the case of a legitimate nuclear threat. ↩︎ posted Sept. 26, 2016 The
NASA launches robotic spacecraft that will visit Bennu, a carbon-rich asteroid the size of several city blocks with the hope of finding clues to the chaotic beginnings of our solar system—and a window to the origin of life. ↩︎ posted Sept. 11, 2016 OSIRIS-REx lifts off aboard an
