![Equality Awareness Smackdown — Why Civil Rights Should Never Be Put to a Popular Vote [VIDEO]](http://www.glittersnipe.com/wp-content/themes/wp-clear/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://www.glittersnipe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/rev-barber-of-nc-150x150.jpg&w=150&h=150&zc=1 "Equality Awareness Smackdown — Why Civil Rights Should Never Be Put to a Popular Vote [VIDEO]")
![Abercrombie & Fitch’s Image Gets Redefined — But Not the Way the CEO Intended [VIDEO]](http://www.glittersnipe.com/wp-content/themes/wp-clear/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://www.glittersnipe.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/A-n-F-150x150.jpg&w=150&h=150&zc=1 "Abercrombie & Fitch’s Image Gets Redefined — But Not the Way the CEO Intended [VIDEO]")
Anyone who grew up north of the Mason-Dixon Line has heard the phrase “I hate country music.” What’s interesting, though, is how often we unapologetic Yankees qualify that declaration with the addendum, “but I love me some Johnny Cash.” And how could we not? The brooding, black-clad singer bridged a stark divide that emerged in [...]
![Equality Awareness Smackdown — Why Civil Rights Should Never Be Put to a Popular Vote [VIDEO]](http://www.glittersnipe.com/wp-content/themes/wp-clear/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://www.glittersnipe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/rev-barber-of-nc.jpg&w=400&h=300&zc=1 "Equality Awareness Smackdown — Why Civil Rights Should Never Be Put to a Popular Vote [VIDEO]")
We have neither read nor heard anyone so succinctly and passionately eviscerate the idea of putting civil rights to a popular vote than the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber of North Carolina. Sadly, the state did not heed his eloquent speech laden with facts, history, and literary allusions. Mercifully, however, other states have. “The question would [...]
The same IRS office that deliberately targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 election released nine pending confidential applications of conservative groups to ProPublica late last year. The IRS did not respond to requests Monday following up about that release, and whether it had determined how the applications were sent [...]
From sartorial vigilantism to callousness to altruism, there is so much going on in Greg Karber’s short video that it’s enough to throw your emotions into a spin cycle. Though the commentary is certainly humorous, when segued with images of homeless people, the effect morphs slightly squirmy. Ultimately, however, we believe that the end result [...]
Anyone who grew up north of the Mason-Dixon Line has heard the phrase “I hate country music.” What’s interesting, though, is how often we unapologetic Yankees qualify that declaration with the addendum, “but I love me some Johnny Cash.” And how could we not? The brooding, black-clad singer bridged a stark divide that emerged in [...]
The same IRS office that deliberately targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 election released nine pending confidential applications of conservative groups to ProPublica late last year. The IRS did not respond to requests Monday following up about that release, and whether it had determined how the applications were sent [...]
On Jan. 23, 2008, the pharmaceutical company Novartis threw a party at a restaurant on Long Island. The party, which cost $1,250, was ostensibly for doctors to learn about cardiovascular drugs made by the company, with Novartis sales representatives present as well. But no doctors ever came, according to a whistleblower lawsuit against Novartis that was [...]
When Reddit co-founder and internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide earlier this year, he was facing up to thirteen felony counts, fifty years in prison, and millions of dollars in fines. His alleged crime? Pulling millions of academic articles from the digital archive JSTOR. Prosecutors alleged that Swartz had downloaded the articles because he intended to [...]
We have neither read nor heard anyone so succinctly and passionately eviscerate the idea of putting civil rights to a popular vote than the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber of North Carolina. Sadly, the state did not heed his eloquent speech laden with facts, history, and literary allusions. Mercifully, however, other states have. “The question would [...]
When we took a detour from our normal programming and published the now-famous letter from an anonymous white woman from South Carolina, we had no idea that it would go viral. Just a week prior we published a list of our fifteen most popular articles for our first anniversary — if we’d tallied the web [...]
In our 361 days of publishing quality reporting, which has been edited and copy edited and researched to hell and back, we have only published one other unedited “open letter.” This one, from a mother in South Carolina could not be ignored. She wrote us asking if she could write an open letter expressing her [...]
![To Sir, with [No] Love — Scott Galloway’s Professorial Smack-down](http://www.glittersnipe.com/wp-content/themes/wp-clear/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://www.glittersnipe.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/prof-galloway-get-your-shit-together-150x150.jpg&w=150&h=150&zc=1 "To Sir, with [No] Love — Scott Galloway’s Professorial Smack-down")
It’s the professorial missive that’s going viral. Scott Galloway, a Clinical Professor of Marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business, recently delivered a Sedaris-esque smack-down by way of Paperchase, and now everyone’s chiming — and clamoring — in. While Deadspin is calling the professor’s response an example of “Internet immortality,” others are heralding Galloway as [...]
As ubiquitous as they are, we still devour them at every turn: articles about how to get upgrades on everything from airlines to hotel rooms, and even how to score a table in the best restaurants. But how many times do they actually work? We can’t tell you how to get swept up to [...]
People with the most tenuous vocabularies run with funified terms like a sugar-fueled spaz with a pair of scissors at a baby shower. Encouraged by the hilarity of this bastardization of communication, armies of Audio Abbreviators (see number three), and cackling Mispronunciators (see following paragraph) gleefully run roughshod over everything we were taught in [...]
No Salt? No Fat? No, Thank You! After spending a week at the annual American Cheese Society conference held in Raleigh, North Carolina this year, I was greeted on Monday with a flurry of postings and commentary in response to Henry Fountain’s article in the Science section of The New York Times. The article describes [...]
Being a restaurant critic in Thailand for years, I can safely say that I’ve pretty much seen (and tasted) it all, from crunchy crickets to ants’ eggs salads, to live “dancing” shrimp, but nothing’s shocked me more than what passes for Thai restaurants abroad — mostly because so many are so phony. Here are a [...]
Yes, “Hell’s Kitchen.” The area in Manhattan from 34th Street to 59th Street and west of Eighth Avenue, goes by many names: Midtown, Midtown West, West Side, the Theater District, and Hell’s Kitchen. It is not, however, known by its official name, “Clinton,” no matter how many times New York City officials write it on [...]
My neighborhood doesn’t seem to have a modern name, and like most neighborhoods in Dublin, it is identified by the closest pub. There are probably fifteen pubs within a three-block radius of my apartment. For my own purposes I am going to use the 13th-century name for it, The Steyne, though at that time [...]
The Danish capital of Copenhagen is a mini-metropolis that easily surpasses nearly every city in the world in aspects of livability. The Danes are famous for their food, for their environmental sensitivity, for their open and diverse culture, for their sense of design, and for their continuing pursuit of science. And if all of this [...]
Once considered a feared no man’s land chock-full of gangs, drug dealers, and squatters, Alphabet City has cleaned up its act — more or less — and become a safer place to live and visit. This scrappy little bitch sister of both the Lower East Side and the East Village has finally come into its [...]
While Glittersnipe cannot confirm the legitimacy of the translated voice over in this video, if you’ve read the government-sponsored fables North Korea cooks up, then this shouldn’t surprise you. What we can confirm, however, that while the Korean Central News Agency reported today that the military dictatorship was “trembling with towering anger at the U.S. [...]
1. Vine Smoothie From the country that gave the world Rembrandt, wooden shoes, fine chocolates, and tulips (no they didn’t — read that here), comes this milky fruity wine beverage inspired by strawberry-flavored Malox and ass. These Dutch imports are now being used in conjunction with the U.S. penal system as an alternative form of [...]
1. Like-A-Hug Facebook Vest Designed by MIT student Melissa Kit Chow, the Like-A-Hug vest inflates when a friend “likes” a photo or status on the wearer’s Facebook page. To return the hug, simply deflate the garment, by hugging it back, and the “liker” feels the love in return. Post a photo of kittens eating a [...]
1. Bagel Heads When a fan sent us the Bagel Head press release, we were convinced it was a hoax — then we read the word, “Japan.” Featured this week on the National Geographic program, “Taboo,” the documentary shows people being connected with intravenous drips for several hours while about half-a-cupful of saline solution is [...]
Sharable graphics, also known as memes, spread throughout Facebook and beyond during the 2012 presidential election — and their popularity kept our art department very busy. Here are fifteen of our most-shared political memes of the season. And if you’d like to taunt your Republican friends, please click on the images to share them — [...]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that in the United States more than 36,000 people take their own lives every year. Eighty-five Americans die as a result of firearms daily — fifty-three of them are suicides. While more suicides occur in the spring and autumn, rather than at Christmastime as is often reported, [...]
It is time to discuss gun control. Indeed, the time has actually passed for many people — many children — in Newtown, in Aurora, in Stockton, in Columbine, in Omaha, and countless other cities throughout the United States. It’s a time for mourning. It is also a time for action. It is a time for [...]
The term “Right to Work,” which Republicans currently wave as as a banner to diminish unions and lower pay wages, was first used by French Socialist leader Louis Blanc in the mid-1800s and is considered one of the first sparks that lead to the French Revolution of 1848. If, however, there is any relation [...]
![Detroit Woman Rages: ‘Get Your Sorry Asses Up Out of Here!’ [VIDEO]](http://www.glittersnipe.com/wp-content/themes/wp-clear/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://www.glittersnipe.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/MELINDA-150x150.jpg&w=150&h=150&zc=1 "Detroit Woman Rages: ‘Get Your Sorry Asses Up Out of Here!’ [VIDEO]")
Melinda Brown Duncan is fed up. The Detroit resident told a local affiliate at Fox News yesterday that she’s ready to run the Motor City and though she doesn’t know exactly how to do it, she does professes to ” learn quick, fast and herd.” And she already has a plan: On housing: “Tear they [...]
The most recent episode of Mad Men contained so many mergers, alliances, and dalliances — both on and off the clock — that the show felt more like a season finale. x When Peggy’s boss Ted gave her an impulsive smooch in office, she seemed so smitten that we were hoping to set our clocks [...]
When the Obama administration released its 2013 Drug Control Strategy recently, drug czar Gil Kerlikowske called it a “21st century” approach to drug policy. “It should be a public health issue, not just a criminal justice issue,” he said. The latest plan builds on Obama’s initial strategy outlined in 2010. Obama said then the U.S. [...]
It was only a mater of time before we became cyborgs. Now, thanks to four students from London’s Royal College of Art, we may all soon possess pseudo-super powers. The students have created “Edios,” which consists of two devices: one for aural sensory enhancement, and another for increased visual capabilities and effects. The apparatuses are [...]
