‘War Porn’ Growing in Numbers

Videos featuring the gruesome killing of Iraqi soldiers and civilians in the Iraq war are growing in numbers online, earning them the name “war porn” as they are viewed for entertainment.

According to Newsweek, thousands of gruesome videos of Iraqi soldiers getting shot in the head, rocket-propelled grenades destroying buildings, and others, are being watched millions of times over.

2011 Death and Taxes Poster

Regardless of whether you applaud or puke over how the government is spending the discretionary budget, there are fascinating details to review in Jess Bachman’s 2011 Death and Taxes poster.

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Just How Many Nukes Does the US Have?


Nuclear weapon test Romeo (11 megaton) on the Bikini Atoll on April 15, 1954

Just how many nuclear bombs does the United States of America have? For thirty years, the exact number of bombs the Pentagon stockpiles has been a secret (though people have pretty much guessed correctly).

Now, for the first time ever, that number has been officially released by the Obama administration: it’s 5,113 warheads.

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You don’t have the rocks!

A coalition of geologists are challenging the way we look at global stone reserves, claiming that, unless smarter methods of preservation are developed, mankind will eventually run out of rocks. “If we do not stop using them up at our current rate, rocks as we know them will be a thing of the past,” renowned geologist Henry Kaiser said at a press conference Tuesday.”