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Botswana Meat Commission FC created Crasstalk.com when he saw the need for a crowdsourced solution to capturing Osama bin Laden. His heroes include Nick Denton and all Bronies ever.

Please Don’t Improve My Neighborhood, I Appreciate its ’80s Crack War’ Aesthetic

If you’re a developer of real estate, someone somewhere will ALWAYS find a reason to oppose your project. Today’s evidence of this comes from the Times, where they wrote about four proposed high-rise towers in Washington Heights.

If you’ve ever followed any sort of local zoning controversy where you live, you’ll know that the status quo-loving NIMBYs always manage to come up with the loopiest arguments against building anything ever. You could turn a half-burning crack house into an orphanage and these people will complain that your orphanage “doesn’t fit with the existing character of the neighborhood.” Continue reading

Relax, Herman ‘Soul Pizza’ Cain is Not Going to be President

Herman “Soul Pizza” Cain is a third-rate pizza chain executive who apparently once guest-hosted for one of right wing talk radio’s most popular human-anal cysts. So by the glue vapor logic of the current Republican Party, of course he should also be president of the United States.

But to quote my favorite old white man (Lee Corso): Not so fast, my friends.  Continue reading

Eleven Habits of Highly Imposing Men

This post was contributed by our very special Friend of Crasstalk, Chillbear Latrigue. It originally appeared at wordsmoker.com. Welcome him, Crasstalkers! For those of you not familiar, Wordsmoker was launched (well before this place) by a group of Gawker commenters. They are our allies in the war to win the internet.

Yeah, it’s happened to just about every man. You’re sitting around watching some modern television show like Men of a Certain Age (or something else where feelings are displayed) and you think, “I really hope I don’t act like that.”

But we both know you do. And you know what? Your friends do too. Our whole fucking country does. Continue reading