“When a rape case in Steubenville, Ohio, became national news, it affected women (and men) all over the world. The image of a seemingly unconscious girl being dragged from one room to the next, the reports of her being sexually assaulted at not one but three different parties, the vulgar …
Read More »Monthly Archives: January 2013
Cheney’s Troop Poisoning KBR Wants Your Money
“Sodium dichromate is an orange-yellowish substance containing hexavalent chromium, an anti-corrosion chemical. To Lt. Col. James Gentry of the Indiana National Guard, who was stationed at the Qarmat Ali water treatment center in Iraq just after the 2003 U.S. invasion, it was “just different-colored sand.” In their first few months …
Read More »Is Obama’s Treasury Nominee A Big Bank Crony?
“President Obama recently said he would love to hire a top executive into his administration. But for the job of Treasury secretary, he didn’t pick a corporate executive, a famous economist or a former politician — he has decided to tap a trusted adviser, White House Chief of Staff Jacob …
Read More »The Vergecast After Hours at CES – Night 2
First day of the show floor. The TV-to-person ratio begins to inch closer to one in a very concentrated geographical location in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES has really and truly begun. Or maybe, just maybe, it has ended. Will tomorrow be different than today? Could it? Have all these descriptions …
Read More »First! Episode 03: Audi, Steam Box, and Polygon’s Chris Grant
It’s hump day. The halfway point. The checkered flag is in sight. Time is absolutely a relative construct, because CES is less than three days old (at the most extreme estimate — technically the show floor only opened yesterday) and yet it feels like a lifetime has passed. It was …
Read More »Surface Pro, Pebble, and more – 90 Seconds on The Verge: Wednesday, January 9, 2013
West of House You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here. Open mailbox This is 90 Seconds on The Verge. More from The Verge: Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theverge Check out our full video catalog: http://www.youtube.com/theverge/videos Visit our …
Read More »StickNFind Location Stickers hands-on video
Sam Byford goes hands-on with the StickNFind Location Stickers. More from The Verge: Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theverge Check out our full video catalog: http://www.youtube.com/theverge/videos Visit our playlists: http://www.youtube.com/theverge/playlists Like The Verge on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/verge Follow on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/verge Follow on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/verge Read More: http://www.theverge.com
Read More »NFL Playoffs 2013: SB Nation’s AFC and NFC Divisional Round Preview
The divisional round of the 2013 NFL Playoffs begin in just three days. Three of the four games feature rematches from the regular season; can Baltimore head to Denver and avenge their Week 15 blowout loss to the Broncos? Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers are San Francisco-bound with …
Read More »Who’s Crazier – Alex Jones, Glenn Beck, or Michael Savage?
“Conservative radio host Michael Savage spoke out against Republicans and Democrats alike on Sunday for pulling a “charade” on the American people, and called for a third political party. “We need a Nationalist party in the United States of America,” Savage said on WABC’s “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” according to …
Read More »90 on 90: Day 3, Update 4
He was turned to steel in the great magnetic field, when he travelled time for the future of mankind. This is 90 on 90. More from The Verge: Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theverge Check out our full video catalog: http://www.youtube.com/theverge/videos Visit our playlists: http://www.youtube.com/theverge/playlists Like The Verge on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/verge Follow on Twitter: …
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