monsters
The CIA's Program to Spread Polio in Pakistan is Working
Tom Scocca · 05/29/13 01:56PMTwo health-care workers were shot yesterday, one fatally, in Peshawar, Pakistan, leading the World Health Organization to suspend polio vaccinations there. Though no one has reportedly taken credit for the attack, it fits with an ongoing anti-vaccination terror campaign by the Pakistani Taliban, which believes health workers are agents of a western conspiracy. This belief is unfortunately not untrue.
Dead California Cop Faces Prison For Rape, Kidnapping
Ken Layne · 05/20/13 02:57PMBoy on Toddlers & Tiaras Is Possessed by a Creepy Little Devil
Rich Juzwiak · 05/24/12 11:20AMMeet Traven, a 6-year-old pageant prince from Pulaski, Illinois, whose mother encourages him to be as womanizing as possible, but also got him into pageants "because he was so cute and he looked like a little girl." So yeah, there's more psychology going on in this episode of Toddlers & Tiaras than usual. This definitely feels like an a-star-is-born moment, but still I don't know what to think of Traven. He's cute, has charisma and uses nonsense words like "delican," but he's also a monster. He disrespects adults regularly — he "fires" his barber and tells his grandmother that she should go work at the Pony, their local strip club — and he's regularly applauded for doing so ("Man, I am something else," he says at one point, to the delight and agreement of every adult in the room). This is funny to watch but I imagine a lot less charming in person and regardless, Traven is a ticking time bomb of irreverence. He's not going to get away with this shit for much longer. Good thing he has reality TV to preserve this moment in amber.
Verlyn Klinkenborg's 'The Rural Life,' Unplugged
Hamilton Nolan · 05/21/12 08:45AMOh tra la, fiddle dee dee, dance 'round all of the Maypoles, for Verlyn Klinkenborg hath taken pen in hand to scratch out yet another dispatch from the mild climes of rural America, which is mightily preferable to the indignities of the city, where all of Verlyn Klinkenborg's readers live. This week's fascinating topic: lawns. We got our hands on the rough draft, before the cityfied editors ruined Verlyn's vision.
25 Descriptions of the Strange Beast that Won the Westminster Dog Show
Maureen O'Connor · 02/15/12 12:51PMThe Globe-Trotting Do-Gooder Who Inspired The Philanthropist Is a Shill For Syria's Brutal Dictator
John Cook · 02/07/12 10:30AMBobby Sager is a millionaire entrepreneur who has devoted his life—when he's not busy serving as chairman of Polaroid—to traveling the world and helping people with his money. He's pals with Sting, hobnobs with Lady Gaga (pictured), and served as the inspiration for NBC's The Philanthropist. And according to internal emails from the Syrian regime, he's a great friend to that country's butcher of a president, Bashar al Assad.
An Answer to Yesterday's 'Holy Crap, What Is This Horrifying Monster That Washed Up In San Diego?' Burning Question
Leah Beckmann · 02/02/12 06:08PMYou are probably still recovering from the sight of the hell baby that found its way to a San Diego beach last week. And you should be, because that thing is a terror and no one seems to know what it is. Fortunately for us, Vice tracked down the tipster who sent in the image in order to get some answers.
Holy Crap, What Is This Horrifying Monster That Washed Up In San Diego?
Leah Beckmann · 02/01/12 03:11PMThat thing you are staring at and trying desperately to understand is a "Chupacabra/Montauk Monster." Or at least that is what the tipster who sent it into Vice called it. It supposedly washed up on a San Diego beach just last week. At approximately two feet in length, it has the face of some sort of tusked boar and makes a weekly appearance in my nightmares. Whether you believe that it is real or not it is up to you to decide, but I am pretty sure that is the most terrible seademon you will see today. And one more for our collection of Montauk Monsters.
Monster Cockroach Can Jump
Maureen O'Connor · 12/14/11 10:20AM'Indisputable Evidence' of Abominable Snowman Found
Hamilton Nolan · 10/12/11 08:27AMThey Found the Sea Monster's Lair!
Hamilton Nolan · 10/10/11 04:25PMGiant Eagles 'Could Target Children'
Maureen O'Connor · 09/02/11 01:48PMThe Scottish government recently imported 14 sea eagles from Norway, to reintroduce the giant bird of prey into the wilds of Scotland. Unfortunately, they chose areas not quite wild enough, according to the Scottish Gamekeepers Association, which is calling for an inquiry into the feathered monsters with wingspans of up to eight feet:
Sad, Dead Hurricane Beast Spotted on Long Island
Lauri Apple · 08/28/11 05:26PMDick Cheney's Only Regret Is That He Didn't Kill More Syrians
John Cook · 08/25/11 10:55AMDick Cheney's memoir In My Time comes out next week, and the New York Times and Drudge Report both got their hot little hands on early copies. It sounds as excruciating as you might imagine: No apologies, no regrets, plenty of self-satisfied machismo. If Cheney had it all to do over again, the only thing he'd do differently is bomb the shit out of Syria.
Did These Hospital Employees Really Trap a Live Chupacabra?
Matt Cherette · 08/17/11 09:35PMIf you veer just outside Washington, DC, you'll find Cheverly, Maryland's Prince George's Hospital Center. And if you veer into the woods just outside the hospital's doors, you'll find... a chupacabra?