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China Just Arrested 15 People in a Bust on an Adult

Breastfeeding Ring

Yep, I did not need to know that this is a thing. No I did not. No.

Found Questioning #6

The premise. This Found Questioning comes courtesy of Vice Magazine.

Should Women Get Days off Work During Their Period?

Um- Er- Ah- Yeah, um- Yeah. As a man, who is definitely a guy, I feel illequipted to answer this question. I do, however, feel perfectly fine clicking on the link in that story that takes me to a story about a Mormom themed porn site. Yeah, I definitely feel good discussing that. Definitely.

Something I'll Be Avoiding In The Distant Future

There are many people who are looking forward to the upcoming 2022 World Cup, to be held in Qatar. I, for one, am looking forward to actively avoiding it. Why?

North Korean Slaves Are Building Qatar’s World Cup Centerpiece

Sony Ends FIFA Sponsorship, No Longer Supports Slavery

Bad Publicity

4Chan has gained a reputation since it's inception as a place on the internet where you can find the most fucked up shit on the internet. 4Chan has become a place where people can do, say, and post things on the internet that most people wouldn't do, say, or post. There is a hotly contested debate as to whether that well known feature of 4Chan is a positive or a negative thing.

Why Did Photos of a Strangled Woman Appear on 4Chan Before Her Body Was Found?

In this case, it's probably a negative thing. They say that there's no such thing as bad publicity. If it publicity that could lead to you getting shut down, then it is bad publicity.

Romantic Research

As an alleged writer, I am always looking for examples of people expressing themselves about the things that go on in their lives. This can range from the disturbing to the funny, but, more than anything else, I'm searching for expressions of the truth. The raw, unspoken, hard to articulate, deep down truth. I search for this truth so that I can recreate it in my fiction.

WHAT I'VE LEARNED FROM MY PATHETIC CRUSHES

Truth.

Good Actors, Bad Actors, And GamerGrant

WikiLeaks is winning over Gamergate with a confusing Twitter campaign

GAMERGATE HATE AFFECTS BOTH SIDES, SO HOW ABOUT WE END IT?

I somehow think this isn't going to end anytime soon. This seems to be continuing to go on regardless of what is said or done. There are some good actors in this movement, but the good actors are being overwhelmingly overshadowed by the bad actors in this movement. So why don't the good actors police the bad? Why don't the people who think this cause is good and just and are doing the correct things to further it use those correct methods to unmask the people who are doing detrimental things to the cause? It's just an idea. It's not like I have any sway over this movement or the people that are in it. I'm just a guy, standing in front of a mob, asking it to love eachother.

Okay, I need to stop having movies on in the background when I write these things.

We Know This Already

VOSS WATER IS BULLSHIT

Yes, all bottled water is bullshit. We've known this for years. Unless you are going to tell me something more substantial, like a brand of bottled water is full of potentially harmful byproducts that are not water, why bother telling me this?

Two Sources On Elizabeth Phillips

I read a lot of different kind of news from a lot of different kinds of news sources. I do this so that I can get a wide variety of news, as well as get a wide variety of opinions on the news stories that are going on. Sometimes the difference between how two different sources reports a story is striking.

Take, for example, the story of Elizabeth Phillips. If you read this story written by Shawn Smith for Vice Magazine's Fightland Blog, you get a picture of a strong female fighter who goes against the normal stereotypes that people have for women. You get a picture of Elizabeth Phillips as a modern woman making a name for herself in a predominately male sport, and kicking a lot of ass while doing so.

If you read this story written by Thomas Gerbasi for the official UFC website, you get a picture of a woman who's been through some fucked up shit in the past year. You get stories of drastic weight cuts, horrific fights that didn't go her way, as well as slight references to her life previous to 2014. From Vice you get a full picture of a fighter on the rise. From the UFC you get a small sliver of a picture of a fighter they might be utilizing more if she continues in her success, if.

This is why I get my news from multiple sources. Not just so I can get a more complete perspective on the stories that go on in my world, but also a more complete perspective on the people that tell those stories. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go back to watching MSNBC's coverage of the Ferguson protests. I'd watch Fox News's coverage, but I'm not at the gym right now.

Juggalos

Magna, Utah is known for many things. It is the headquarters of Kennecott, which is a major employer in the state of Utah. (Insert additional thing that Magna is known for here) Magna is also known as a center for the juggalo population in Utah.

For the uninitiated, juggalos are ardent fans of Insane Clown Posse, who go so far as to paint their faces in a style that is similar to the two frontman of their favorite rap group. Juggalos have often been associated in the media with many kinds of deviant behavior, including criminal conduct, drug use, and listening to Insane Clown Posse. Despite knowing several people who are self identified juggalos, I have never met or even seen a juggalo that I find to be sexually attractive.

NSFW PHOTOS OF SEXY JUGGALETTES AT THE GATHERING OF THE JUGGALOS

And I still haven't. Also, what's with all the sex toys? I haven't seen this many dilldos in one location since the last meeting of the Utah State Legislature.

Found Questioning #2

Recently I found out about the rise in popularity of Ask.FM and, rather than join the site, resolved to engage in something I'm calling found questioning. Like found poetry, I find questions that are posed on the internet and I answer them, no matter how awkward that question or the answer may be. Today's found questions comes courtesy of Vice Magazine.

Could Pooping In A Box Save The Developing World?

Wait, what? Really? That's a question that people are asking? Really? Dude, the more you learn about the world the more creepy and weird and disgusting things you find in it. I'm going to hide now. Later.

Vice For Butts

As I have said before, I really like the reporting done by Vice Magazine. Vice Magazine does the kind of reporting you usually don't see in the mainstream press. Outlets like NBC News, Fox, ABC, and even BBC news would never go in depth about stories such as the escalating situation going on in the Ukraine, police brutality in Kenya, and what it's like to be an illegal immigrant in Greece. Vice Magazine can also get exclusive interviews with intriguing people who's story is little known and little told, such as the article recently done by Jake Hanrahan about the drug dealers on the Silk Road.

Vice Magazine is also one of the only places on the internet where you can get an in depth analysis of butts at Coachella. Only through Vice Magazine can you delve into the mind of a photo journalist as he details his thoughts, drives, and aspiration, as he goes about seeking butts at one of the world's largest music festivals. Only through articles like this can you know of the triumphs, failures, and glorious success that can be had through the pursuit of butts. Only on Vice.

Project Buy A House In Peru

Recently I was accused of breaking copyright law by my ISP. While I am not admitting anything, I will say that my Media PC is full of music that I own but have not listened to recently. Rather than seeking to download music in a completely legal and legitimate manner, I am looking for places where I could get away with piracy. Not that I engage in piracy, because piracy is wrong. (Look out, they're watching!)

Again, I turn toward an article on Vice Magazine. In a post entitled Peru's DVD Pirates Are Its Top Culture Dealers, Derek Mead gives details of the thriving bootleg market in Peru, as well as the high amount of piracy that goes on in that country. This makes me sincerely think about moving to Peru.

What am I going to do in Peru? Simple, pirate! I am perfectly willing to sit in a booth all day surrounded by bootlegged/pirated material with a DVD burner humming in the background. Sure this might not be the most profitable business in the world, but the difference in the cost of living between here and Lima makes up the difference. Besides, I've been looking into Buddhism and the concept of doing away with material possessions is appealing to me.

Sure explaining my move to people might be difficult at first, but people never really understand why I do anything. Hell, I'll probably end up having an hour long discussion of why I'm going to go see The Raid 2 on Sunday. Would having to explain why I want to move to Peru be any worse than having to explain why I want to go see a movie? Would having to explain why I want to move to Peru be any worse than having to be grilled about why I want to do anything at any time for any reason? Of course not. Now, what's the Peruvian equivalent of Realtor.com?

There's A Well Light Strip Club?

There's a post on Vice Magazine that I read about a week ago that still sticks in my mind. It's an article by Mitchell Sunderland called I WORE A SPANDEX DIAPER TO A STRIP CLUB SO I COULD COME WHILE RECEIVING A LAP DANCE. No, really, this is an real article about an real product that really exists. Really.

What disturbs me about this article is not Mr. Sunderland detailing his experience at a gay strip club. Actually, I found it enlightening to learn of the experience of going to a gay strip club. Personally, my experiences with gay strip clubs are limited to the movie Pecker. Nor did it disturb me to read of the various sex acts that Mr. Sunderland received while at the gay strip club. Frankly, it made me wonder what it would be like to go to a strip club like this, or any strip club that is not regulated within an inch of it's life.

What disturbs me about Mr. Sunderland's article is the pictures. No, not the fact that the pictures detail his experience at the gay strip club, but rather that the pictures are good. These pictures are well light, artistically framed, and seem to be taken freely and openly. This is not the experience I've had with the strip clubs I've been to. Not only are camera expressly banned in all of the strip clubs I've been to, but the lighting therein can be best described as anti-lighting. Granted these pictures look like they were taken with a flashbulb that puts out more light than a nuclear bomb, but still there's light! In the strip clubs I've been in the main source of light was the cell phones of the people checking their messages as the emaciated blonde woman in front of them goes through her hourly routine.

All of this makes me sincerely want to go experience for myself what Johnny's Fort Lauderdale is actually like. Now, I don't want to tell people that I'm going to Florida just so I can go to a strip club. So, what can I use as cover for my excursion?

Game Nation

Again, I Like Vice Magazine

On Thursday, Vice Magazine posted an article about violent protests going on in Bangkok. What? You mean you haven't heard of these protests? That's okay, neither had I. This is a story that has gone largely unreported in the American press. Of course, CNN may have done a story about it, but I haven't watched that shit since the debacle that was their coverage of the Boston Bombings.

This is why people should get their news from a diverse number of sources. There are lots of stories out there that don't get ample coverage in the American press that people should know about. There can also be differences between the way that one news source covers a story in comparison to another. Details, knowledge, insight, bias, all of these things can be known and sorted through if you get your story from multiple sources.

Where am I going with this? What is the point of this? What differentiates this blog post from any of the other blog posts that tell people to not trust the media? Do I have an ending for this? Hey, look a kittie.

Possible Utah Smokescreen

There's an article on Vice Magazine about the anti-gay laws that were recently passed in Nigeria. The article, by Oscar Rickett, asserts that the convoluted, illogical, and often redundant laws against homosexuality in Nigeria may be a smokescreen drawing attention away from systemic problems inside the Nigerian government. These problems include power shortages, economic inequality, piracy, militant terrotism, and ethnic strife. Rickett says in his article:

With all these issues going unaddressed, the one thing Jonathan could guarantee support on was bashing homosexuality.

This article piqued my interest. With all the attention that was being brought to Nigeria, and other African countries, over their anti-gay laws, none of that attention included talk about the other problems that people are encountering in their country. It makes me rethink the coverage of such issues in the media. It also makes me rethink the actions of my local officials.