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L’oreal’s Ad featuring a photoshopped Rachel Weisz banned.

Anything to get you to buy the myth.... It seems the beauty industry has once again found itself in a spot of bother with the release of L'oreal's latest homage to eternal beauty, youth and good looks featuring actress Rachel...

Complaints that latest Libra ad will incite transgender prejudice ignored by Australia’s Advertising Bureau as debate gains fuel (once...

It seems the debate behind Libra's ad for its tampon pitting one 'natural' woman against a 'transgender' woman has riled its head once again pursuant to local demands that Australia's Advertising Standards Bureau pull the ad or risk inciting prejudice...

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Father, mother and son sentenced to life for ‘twisted’ honor killings of family daughters.

Four lives down the drain because of a twisted notion of honor. Three members of a Montreal family will be facing life imprisonment after being found guilty of premeditated murder of the family's 3 teenage daughters and their father's first wife...

A morbid fascination with the Casey Anthony saga and why it still persists.

Casey Anthony leaker, Holly Briley caught attempting to extort high profile lawyer Kim Picazio. As dribs and drabs of news involving the affairs of one young woman, Casey Anthony who last year was acquitted of murdering her 2 year old daughter...

Man locked in solitary confinement for 2 years on a DWI charge awarded $22 million.

A man has been awarded one of the largest prisoner civil suit settlements in the country after receiving $22 million for suffering inhumane treatment at the hands of authorities after he was arrested in 2005 whilst driving intoxicated and...

Is marriage only for White People? The demise of the single black woman…

A new book by Stanford University law professor Ralph Richards Banks, "Is marriage for white people," is causing degrees of dissent after the author posits the idea that the idea of marriage has essentially become a realistic aspiration amongst...

Transgender persons in Pakistan are now allowed to vote. But tensions persist.

Pakistan's supreme court has issued a decree that will now allow an estimated 80 000 transgender persons (or eunuchs as they are otherwise derogatively known) to vote in national elections. The decision came as a result of a widespread petition...
Swedish law demands that transgender people undergo sterilization

Swedish law demands that transgender people undergo sterilization if they seek to legally update their gender.

So much for liberal etiquette. Then again what did you expect from society that may or may not seek to pacify patriarchal convoluted notions of who counts for a male or as a woman? Mother Jones has come out with...

Welcome to angry birds. The new google ads that wont leave you alone until you buy something.

What's that thing you buy when you just want to get rid of it?  Have you ever played Angry Birds online? That's when you are ready to waste an evening after a day of stressful meetings opening a Tab in...

Dartmouth frat hopeful accuses frat house of forcing them to swim in urine, vomit, semen and to eat an...

Image by Kevin Goebel via Flickr How desperately do you want to be a frat boy? Here comes a story kids that admittedly has got me wincing from one side of my face to the backdoor of the other side of the world....

Ex government drug advisor fired for his views on psychedelics now argues main ingredient of magic mushrooms may help...

Studies led by Robin Carhart-Harris of London's Imperial College have now presented tantalizing evidence that the effective ingredient of magic mushrooms, part of the group of psychedelic drugs, psilocybin may go a long way in the treatment of depression. Argues...

Cops shoot man dead at point blank because he wouldn’t put down his crowbar.

Are police using excessive force? I've watched the video at least 3 times (and this one is fairly gruesome) and the more I look at it the more I wonder to myself was it really necessary for police officers to...

11 year old boy with autism is caught on video being beaten up as nearby boys cheer on.

During a typical day at school Kaleb Kula announces he is  called a 'homosexual.' Then taunted with other school children trying to kick him, push him, punch him, and as he says 'a lot of other things.' Things that now...

The scientific reason revealed of why you’re a hipster.

The scientific reason revealed of why you're a hipster. More to do with the things that you unwittingly enjoy than the things that you think you're supposed to enjoy... A new study courtesy of the Proceedings of the National Academy of...