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Among the many things that the United Nations Security Council worked on yesterday during their dealings in New York was the decision to move forward on measures to stem the proliferation of nuclear weapons. We applaud the move (and urge the French president to stop being a wuss and show his support), and hope that [...]

Today is September 11 – in case you’d forgotten, in which event you must not be a Patriot (today is also Patriot Day) – the 8th anniversary of a certain event that changed the course of modern history. Of course, no horrifying act of death and destruction is beyond the purview of advertisers constantly looking [...]

The first zeppelin (named after inventor Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, seriously) took to the skies exactly 109 years ago, and though we’re a little sad they didn’t catch on as well as the airplane, we suppose all the flammable gases and whatnot are a plenty good reason. At any rate, to celebrate that 109th anniversary, [...]

Whereas we recently praised a listicle of anti-smoking advertisements, we’re generally pretty skeptical about anti-porn messages. More often than not they seem motivated by an even more harmful anti-sex agenda rather than actual concern for the inequities and injustices of the pornography industry and predatory Internet users. That’s why we invite you to laugh at [...]

As you may have heard, a Starbucks on Manhattan’s Upper West Side was bombed very early in the morning yesterday. The coffee shop’s windows shattered, but nobody was hurt. To prove that clever graphic design can be a more effective form of protest than terrorism, we’ve rounded up these 14 Remixed Starbucks Logos.

Creepy, not unlike…

Even two years ago, we had a very real, very tangible anxiety related to a crisis with spectacularly disastrous implications. Global warming, it seemed, was threatening us with tornadoes and hurricanes, tidal waves, desertification, snowstorms and heat waves. Before that we had terrorism, Y2K and the great nuclear fears of the Cold War. Our current [...]

As you may or may not know, record snowfall has hit the Midwest and East Coast of the U.S. over the last two days. Here in New York schools even got a rare snow day, and we’re told children are out in the streets celebrating with snowball fights, igloos, snow angels and the like. Meanwhile, [...]

We know the Obama administration is up to its neck in financial reform and bailout messiness, but we also know that the squeaky wheel gets the grease (right?). In that spirit, we greatly appreciate this listicle from Slate suggesting 10 Bush Cases Obama’s Justice Department Should Redo. The list covers all kinds of DoJ injustice, [...]

President Barack Obama seems to be making good on his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp within the next year, but that’s no reason to forget all the people who’ve spent years of their lives being illegally detained in the Cuban waterfront prison. As the jail that was not legal enough to be [...]

Call it the backlash against the backlash: after heaping wild hopes on president-elect Obama, and then turning around and professing in a disenchanted manner that he’ll invariably disappoint us, we’re now back to piling on the starry-eyed expectations.
That said, here at Listicles we prefer unreasonable expectations to presumed disappointment, in which spirit we pass along [...]