Profanity!
A Profanity Filter Banned the Word 'Bone' at a Paleontology Conference
“Words like ‘bone,’ ‘pubic,’ and ‘stream’ are frankly ridiculous to ban in a field where we regularly find pubic bones in streams,” one participant said of the filter, which organizers had to thwart.
Now That You Can Trademark Swear Words, Here Are All the Wildest NSFW Requests
A Supreme Court ruling on vulgar trademarks is making space for new, profane ventures, from "A$$RICH" to "Bitchigan."
Leaked manuals show how Facebook decides if you see nudity or death
Leaked manuals show exactly how Facebook's 4,500 content moderators are trained to manually filter out extreme racism, misogyny, violence, pornography and other content deemed too disturbing for wider human consumption.
Sex, Drugs, Nails: Talking to Lenny Dykstra About His Wild, Reckless Ride Through Life
Lenny Dykstra played the game hard on the field, and played dangerously hard off it. He wound up in prison for it, but his new memoir isn't about regrets.
Fuckers Who Curse a Lot Aren't Stupid, Says Science
A new study shows that douchebags who know more profanities tend to have better vocabularies overall.
A Morning Show Hosted the World's Most Cringeworthy Rap Battle and They Don't Want You to See It
Fortunately, we do want you to see it.
A Service Industry Manifesto: Tell One Customer a Day to Go Fuck Themselves
Profanity will be the boot we jam into the cogs of minimum wage labor and the only path to universal love.
Queer Christ: A Primer on LGBT Theology
The new queer theology movement––spearheaded by a trans* priest and a radical Biblical interpreter––is reinventing the missionary position.
Bent-Con Is a Comic Convention for Gay Nerds
The most interesting thing for me at this annual LA LGBT meet up was (no surprise) the plumbing. There were comic book drawings of hyper-muscular red-skinned devils showing off their meat, a guy dressed as Cyclops from the X-Men shaking his butt, and...
The Un-Science of Radionics
To get a handle on a controversial, discredited, and generally bizarre medical technology called radionics, here’s a story about me as a horny teenager.