By Erin Curtice Can't someone kill me... please? I hope you’re out there; maybe some psychic working for the police or someone who has visions. If you can hear me, I’m in Room 217 of the County Hospital. Surrounded by medical staff who marvel at my condition. If only…
By: Eddie Vince Many are worried about the economy, not only in the States but everywhere. Some suggests fiscal conservatism and minimalist government intervention within the free market, while others suggest the government needs to step into unethical and destructive business practices preying on the people. Well, I think…
By: Edward Miles As an aphorism to determine worldviews, ‘Is the glass half empty or half full?’, is possibly one of the most puerile definitions of pessimism and optimism that’s ever been uttered. So, what are the origins of pessimism and optimism, and why is modern culture so decadently…
By: Thomas Dendrill After browsing WHOF.net (Wipeout Homophobia on Facebook) I was recently having a conversation with a friend about pansexuality, trying my best to explain to him what it meant. "It means you love everyone no matter their sex or gender," I said, to which he promptly retorted,…
“Are you ever going to get over this?” Ed asks me with annoyance. “Unghhh.” I say without looking at him, my tongue angrily probing the hole between two teeth. He knocked one out last summer. Accidentally, we were moving a couch. “What? Oh Jesus, you're not poking at that…
By: Horton Thompson The Bardo Thodol, also known as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, is, at its core, a book about dying. Bardo Thodol, though, literally translates as Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State, despite its original translator, Theosophist and scholar, Walter Evans-Wentz translating it as The…
In July 2010, as I read yet another comment of not so thinly veiled hate on a thread on Facebook, two things happened to me: (1) I vowed never to keep quiet in the presence of a hate comment (on Facebook, or anywhere else), and (2) this quote—baldly borrowed…
By: Daniel Finnester - Hirsutism: The study of hair and its cultural implications. (see disclaimer below) For the purpose of this article hirsutism is the sociological study of men's facial hair. So, what does hair mean on a guy's face? It says a lot more about the individual than…
By: Stuart Billingsly Sexual anorexia is a term that refers to a man's inability to get an erection in any sexual context without the aid or supplement of porn—to which in many cases it's entirely solitary. And scientists have found that the number of men suffering from sexual anorexia…
By: Frank Thompson First off, I'd like to apologize for putting up a story that turned out to be completely false and framing it as if it were true. Unfortunately, like everyone, I am bound to be mislead at times. But then I began surfing the web to see…