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Great Moments in the War Against DMCA

Friday, November 3rd, 2006
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act has inspired a whole helluva lot of abuse in its short tenure. But it's also inspired playful reactions meant to instruct, annoy and protest. By Destiny Full article »

Interview With Valleywag Nick Douglas

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
Spilling the goods on Oracle's Larry Ellison, Google's Marissa Mayer, and all manner of California reporters, geeks, and venture capitalists. By RU Sirius Full article »

EFF and 10 Zen Monkeys vs. Michael Crook and DMCA

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is representing 10 Zen Monkeys in a civil lawsuit against griefer Michael Crook for abusing the DMCA and violating our free speech rights. By Jeff Diehl Full article »

Libertarian Chick Fights Boobs With Boobs

Monday, October 30th, 2006
While most of the dialogue during this campaign has been sex-negative, there have been a few cases in which women candidates have tried to use their ample bosoms to attract positive attention. By RU Sirius, Full article »

Haunted by Chipmunk Ghosts

Sunday, October 29th, 2006
A troubled son endures another generation with Alvin and the Chipmunks. By Destiny Full article »

Steve Robles

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Steve Robles is a writer based in San Francisco. He’s been a contributor to Getting It, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Eros Zine, Time Out, and various other publications. And sometimes Robles plays co-host on the RU Sirius Show podcast.

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5 More Nasty Campaigns

Monday, October 23rd, 2006
"You can't say I want to win the war but not be willing to fight the war," Karl Rove says. Nearly $60 million has been spent on a massive stockpile of television artillery. By Lou Cabron Full article »

Detention and Torture: Are We Still Free, or Not?

Monday, October 23rd, 2006
Just as great as the vitriol coming from presidential critics right now, is the mixture of signals from the activist media regarding the Military Commissions Act signed by Bush last Tuesday. By RU Sirius Full article »

Violet Blue SHOCKER: “I’d Do Bruce Campbell!”

Thursday, October 19th, 2006
We get into some interesting questions about evolutionary psychology and women's sexuality; about the awful state of sex education in the US; about how media corporations try to purchase edginess. By RU Sirius Full article »

Good Griefers: Fortuny v. Crook

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
In the easily spoofed "reality" of the online griefing biz, it's difficult to know the difference between authentic actions and ones that are done merely for publicity, particularly when the publicity-seekers don't have a whole lot of regard for their own reputations. By Lou Cabron Full article »

What the F*ck is Wrong With the Japanese? (Nose Abuse Fetish)

Friday, October 13th, 2006
Let me take you by the nose hand with this overly, singularly, amazingly specific fetish, where women's noses are squeezed. By Violet Blue Full article »

Dan the Automator Remixes the Blue Angels

Thursday, October 12th, 2006
It was Fleet Week in San Francisco, and The Blue Angels tried to shock and awe us with their aerobatics. But after a while, we just thought of it as part of the mix. By RU Sirius Full article »

My Opponent Pays for Gay Teen Bestiality!

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
In the interest of keeping this wave of eminently entertaining campaign ads alive, we suggest possibilities for GOP media strategists in the post-Foley arena. By Jeff Diehl Full article »

Neil Gaiman has Lost His Clothes

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
Gaiman has been touring America promoting his new collection, Fragile Things: Short Fiction and Wonders. By RU Sirius Full article »

5 Nastiest Campaign Ads So Far

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
Campaigns trade charges of Playboy parties, methamphetamines, and epithets about sluts. By Lou Cabron Full article »

The Perversions of Perverted-Justice

Monday, October 2nd, 2006
In the name of protecting society from its most reviled deviants, they've aimed their vigilante arsenal at rival web sites, personal enemies, and even Google and Wikipedia. By Lou Cabron Full article »

Adopt an African Hottie’s Clitoris!

Friday, September 29th, 2006
Let's face it, if you're a cult leader, it can't hurt your image to literally bestow blessings upon the genitalia of nubile females. By Jeff Diehl Full article »

California Cults 2006

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
The presence of trippy and sometimes destructive fringe cults across California might be an inevitable side-effect of the state's early-adopter post-modernism. By RU Sirius Full article »

Awesomest Congressional Campaign Ever — Vernon Robinson, N.C.

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
Robinson's media savvy is matched only by his massive set of huevos. By Jeff Diehl Full article »

Jason Fortuny Speaks

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006
He's not sorry, he'd do it again, and he's buying a gun. By Lou Cabron Full article »

Death? No, Thank You

Thursday, September 21st, 2006
When the looming biotech boom starts making real advances, how fast will people's sentiments about scientific immortality change, along with their demands? By Jayden Devereux Full article »

Willie Nelson’s ‘Narcotic’ Shrooms

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
The mainstream media tends to use law enforcement misnomers for illicit drugs, when reporting news around drugs. By RU Sirius Full article »

In the Company of Jerkoffs

Monday, September 18th, 2006
A Fortuny copycat "griefer" is ambushing men on Craig's List with fake sex ads — not only is he pathetic but he lacks any imagination, which is an even greater crime. By Lou Cabron Full article »

9/11 – The Wingnuts v. The Sheeple

Thursday, September 14th, 2006
We live in paranoid times. I'd like to think that there is still space in public discourse for agnosticism; for uncertainty; and for considering the ideas of the other. By RU Sirius Full article »

Downfall of “The Seducer”

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
What happens when an aging pickup artist of legendary proportions falls from grace and is supplanted by a younger crop of studs? By Jeff Diehl Full article »

The Secret Life of Jason Fortuny

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
He's become famous as an online menace/hero after posting the photos and come-ons from nearly 150 men responding to a fake sex ad he placed on Craig's List. What kind of man would commit such a prank? By Lou Cabron Full article »

Three Hundred Pound Porn Queen Decimates Oklahoma Town

Monday, September 11th, 2006
Some citizens unearthed pictures online of the police chief's wife giving blowjobs, but what about her involvment in the meth trade? Is the "war on drugs" a war "on drugs"? By Jeff Diehl Full article »

The Cellphone Murders

Thursday, September 7th, 2006
The phonebashing.com site knocking the corporate suits at Virgin Records is in fact owned, run, and incorporated by Virgin Records. By Destiny Full article »

The LA Cop Who Became the Leading 9/11 Conspiracy Spokesman

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
An ex-narc finds himself speaking to auditoriums packed with enthusiastic hemp-wearing lefties having their darkest suspicions confirmed. By RU Sirius Full article »

Dana Plato, Porn Star

Tuesday, September 7th, 1999
She told Girlfriends the movie was "The worst piece of work I've ever done." It could've been better, but the director was "not an actor's director." (His next film was Bikini Med School.) By Lou Cabron Full article »

Journalism is Dead

Wednesday, August 25th, 1999
People raised on the Web will no more believe that the truth radiates from the pages of The New York Times than from the latest Eminem CD. Full article »

Sex For Memes’ Sake

Wednesday, August 4th, 1999

Sociobiologists have attempted to elucidate the spectrum of human behaviors in terms of evolution, but they find themselves facing big problems when explaining sexual activities.

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