Category: FEATURES

“This Is a Test. The World Is Watching.” Ed Button Examines Ferguson One Week Later

by Ed Button In last week’s article concerning Ferguson, I said it would be a long week. I severely underestimated things. So what have we learned in the week since the initial shooting? Not much more than we knew originally. We know that Michael Brown was shot and killed by the now-identified Darren Wilson and he was roughly 35 feet… Read more →

The Inconvenient Patriot: It’s Time To Look at Ferguson Protesters Differently

by Shimbo Patriot [pey-tree-uh t, -ot or, esp. British, pa-tree-uh t] noun 1. a person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion. 2. a person who regards himself or herself as a defender, especially of individual rights, against presumed interference by government. For too long now, the word “patriot” was synonymous with the image of… Read more →

The Fire This Time: Ed Button Tries To Make Sense Out Of Ferguson

by Ed Button It’s been a long weekend, and it’s shaping up to be a long week. In case you’ve been living under a rock, 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer in the Ferguson area of St. Louis County Saturday afternoon, kindling a fire of national outrage concerning the death of yet another unarmed person… Read more →

We Are All Terminal Cases: Robin Williams 1951-2014

by Shimbo I just want to be able to stop crying long enough to write this, because I don’t want to wait to do this. I need to be able to get this out. It’s been about an hour or so since the world learned that Robin Williams passed away at the age of 63. That he died of an… Read more →

Here’s to Healthy Humping: Meet the World’s First Sexual Fitness Tracker

by Shimbo These days, it seems like we have to track everything. Whether it’s Nike Fuel, Jawbones, FitBits or whatever other type of piece of plastic whose primary objective is to show you how much you suck at exercise. Now the fitness craze has gone in a whole new (and slightly warped) direction with the introduction of the SexFit. “What… Read more →