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How You Should Feel About Kony 2012, the Campaign That's Taking Over the Internet: A Guide

Max Read · 03/08/12 03:06PM

If you have been on the internet in the last 48 hours (you have), you've probably heard something about "Kony 2012," a new campaign aimed at raising awareness of Ugandan guerilla leader and war criminal Joseph Kony. And if you're anything like me, you've probably avoided thinking about it too much. But the time has come to form an opinion. And we're here to help. Below, all the opinions it's possible to have about Joseph Kony and Invisible Children's campaign to stop him.

Internet Rages over PayPal Ruining Poor Kids' Christmas

Adrian Chen · 12/06/11 12:15PM

Take a much-loathed corporation, add poor kids, Christmas, and a popular blog, and you've got the recipe for a perfect Internet Shit Storm. Paypal is being blasted for "stealing" money raised for Christmas presents for poor kids.

Good Riddance, Movember

Brian Moylan's Mustache · 12/01/11 02:55PM

Today is December 1. Do you know what that means? Oh, yeah World AIDS Day. That's great, but that's not what makes today awesome. Today marks the end of Movember, when all the jerks and mustache-come-latelys shave their upper lips. Thank the mustache gods.

Aziz Ansari Wants Your Spit

Matt Cherette · 11/24/11 06:40PM

Are you a fan of Parks and Recreation? Do you hate cancer? If so, then you'll dig this clever new PSA from DoSomething.org, which stars Aziz Ansari and Chris Pratt urging people to "Give a Spit" about blood cancer (and hopefully save a life in the process). So go spit all over them! I mean, if you're into that sort of thing. [via YouTube]

The 9/11 Charity Fraud Shame List

Maureen O'Connor · 08/25/11 01:33PM

The Associated Press checked in with 325 charities founded in the wake of 9/11, many of which are still active. Most of them were doing nice things! But a bunch were doing ethically dubious, borderline fraudulent things, frittering away millions of benevolently bestowed dollars.

Mitt Romney Shares Leftover Pizza Scraps With Obama Campaign

Jim Newell · 05/27/11 10:51AM

Willard "Mittens" Romney is nothing if not America's most generous and dedicated philanthropist, always searching for the newest health research institutes, arts centers, and presidential campaigns for himself to dump all of his old Pratt-Romney family fortune into. Actually, we have no idea if he's a philanthropist. But he did send some leftover pizza to the Obama Campaign yesterday, so that's something, right?

It Pays to Be Oprah's All-Time Favorite Guest

Matt Cherette · 05/20/11 04:47PM

On today's Oprah Winfrey Show—the last before next week's grand finale—the Queen of Daytime revealed her favorite guest of all time. Taking top honors was Dr. Tererai Trent, who broke free of poverty and abuse in her native Zimbabwe to achieve success. Trent's big dream has been to open a school for girls in her home village. And it was realized today when Winfrey surprised her on the air with a $1.5 million donation.

Billionaires Want You to Give Your Money Away

Lauri Apple · 05/07/11 03:10PM

Warren Buffett, Melinda Gates, and some other middle-class Americans got together in Arizona to talk about giving some of their hard-earned dollars away to less successful, less ambitious Americans, and also "meet each other, compare notes, eat and laugh." They hope you'll follow their example.

How the Weirdos Behind 'To Catch a Predator' Blew $1.2 Million

John Cook · 04/07/11 12:06PM

Remember 'To Catch a Predator,' the awful festival of horror and shame from Dateline NBC that briefly captured America's heart in the mid-aughts? We thought we'd check in with the creepy internet vigilantes behind it, and guess what? They're broke.