“A bizarre new video linking women’s use of birth control pills and other chemical contraceptives to an “increase” in homosexual activity among men is making the blogosphere rounds. Produced by a group of Roman Catholic nuns calling themselves the Children of Mary order, “You Deserve to Know the Truth: Contraception” …

This September was the first month of The Verge Book Club, and if you’ve been reading along, you already know that we read Philip K. Dick’s rather mind-bending novel, Ubik. Here is our companion Vergecast, wherein we answer every question and solve every riddle that has ever puzzled any reader …

“Jennifer Livingston, a local news anchor in La Crosse, Wisconsin, responded to a viewer’s outrageous attack on her appearance on Tuesday morning. Livingston recently received an email from a male viewer criticizing her weight. Her husband and fellow news anchor Mike Thompson posted the text to the Facebook page for …

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“Behold: the real-life anime girl. Anastasiya Shpagina, a 19-year-old Ukrainian woman, has brightly colored hair, pale skin and a doe-eyed stare that could be mistaken for an actual cartoon — it looks as if she’s walked straight off the television screen (of a “Sailor Moon” episode, obvi). The online sensation …

“A tea party group in North Carolina is being criticized by local residents after it held a “machine gun social” to raise funds for conservative candidates. WLOS reported that members of the tea party gathered in Brevard on Saturday to fire various machine guns for donations ranging from $25 to …

“The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that Mitt Romney’s potential list of nominees for Treasury Secretary includes John Thain, the former CEO of Wall Street investment bank Merrill Lynch who now heads CIT Group. Thain is perhaps best known for overseeing Merrill Lynch as it fell apart during the …

“In a new Web video, one of the nation’s most politically active unions — the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees — takes a slap at Mitt Romney and his “47 percent remarks” by showing a sanitation worker whose route, it says, includes Mr. Romney’s oceanfront home in …

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“A gym teacher in Queens, New York, is suing the city, claiming that he was beat up by a six-year-old, who is a first-grader. According to NY Post, John Webster, 27, who is a gym teacher and weighs 220 pounds, said that 6-year-old Rodrigo Carpio beat him up and caused …