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This was originally intended to be a listicle of heads of state behaving or posing in a manner suggestive of bad-ass-ery, but as we went down our list of current and former heads of states, Vladimir Putin turned out to be his own self-sufficient epic action movie. That is why we revised our plan to [...]

Today marks the 40th anniversary of Nerf, invented by intrepid toy creator Reyn Guyer. In lieu of an actual Nerf battle (although it’s tempting), we’ve rounded up some of our favorite ads by the foam gun manufacturers. They weren’t always in the arms business, though, as you’ll see with the first couple entries in our [...]

Today is National Pink Day, which might seem like a huge waste of a national holiday to you (and no, it has nothing to do with breast cancer), but let’s face it: we all need at least one day to get all the pent-up pinkaliciousness out of our systems. That said, even on pink day [...]

Like the cheating husband recently busted by his wife’s astute Google Street View investigation, it’s increasingly looking like all the scary 1984-style scenarios we imagined Homeland Security and the NYPD would bring about first will actually arrive by way of the overlords of all things online. With moral policing covered, it appears that actual criminal [...]

One looks to the head of government for all kinds of symbollic strength, but it seems like it’s been a while since a U.S. president has actually needed to be a big, brutish manly man. That said, few hours go by without us hearing that we’re headed for times of unprecedented danger and difficulty, which [...]

Okay, so this vidsticle doesn’t just include shots but literally every single instance of fire (including cigarettes) throughout the entire Die Hard series. As you might imagine then, these 1,000 Shots from the Die Hard Series actually probably total something closer to 1,000,000. Nevertheless, we figured that Nicholas Chatfield-Taylor’s fast-paced action reduction would be the [...]

Welcome back for the third edition of Listicles’ weekly round-up of all the nifty short-form moving image ephemera we come across in a given seven day period. There’s always more than we can squeeze into a three video post, so know that each installment of Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos is the result of a stressful, [...]

As we’ve reported in previous editions of our weekly psychoanalysticle Freudian Fridays, phallic forms are among the most potent and clearly legible symbols of power in our patriarchal capitalist society. Though it’s strategically dangerous to represent phallic power with an actual penis (which is perpetually vulnerable and, by and large, not that impressive), elongated objects [...]

Yesterday a bill proposed by Virginia’s Democratic Governor Tim Kaine to require background checks for the sale of guns at gun shows in the traditionally Republican state was rejected. The day before another of Kaine’s laws was repealed, this one seeking to prohibit individuals carrying concealed firearms into establishments selling alcohol. Needless to say, we’re [...]

Real weapons are scary, but made-up weapons can be a great deal of fun. Why, just the other day we were reading about the Condiment Gun, which we used on each of our roommates at least twice before the ketchup, mustard and relish ran out. Of course, our collective fictions are also full of fancy [...]