WTF Friday, 3/16/2012
This week in first world problems: “‘It’s not cheap like it used to be,’ laments Dale Weathington of Kolcraft, an American firm that uses contract manufacturers to make prams in southern China. Labour...
View ArticleWTF Friday, 3/23/2012
Tell me this fool did not study marine navigation just so he could do this. You know us folks at WR always get excited for a coup. Jk this is no good. “Sirleaf came under fire after the Guardian...
View ArticleWTF Friday, 4/6/2012
This is kind of the perfect set-up. Nick Cage hasn’t done a prison movie since 1997, and I think we all know how well that went. “An exhibition of guns as art now in Mexico is making its way from...
View ArticleWTF Friday, 4/13/2012
“Others recount being warned by white neighbors not to slaughter animals for festive occasions, or being mistaken for a prostitute simply for having drinks in a bar full of white patrons.” Wow....
View ArticleFarewell Friday
Hey all. It is with great sadness that I write this post, my “retirement” post. Over the past few years I have had a great time doing “WTF Friday,” working with Amanda and Kate, and interacting with...
View ArticleWTF Friday, 6/22/2012
tl;dr of this NATO press release about aerial drones aerial surveillance planes patrolling European skies: ”Nice Euro 2012 Championship you have there. Sure would be a shame if anything were to...
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WTF Friday, 9/14/2012
A historical “WTF” to wrap up a rough week: The National Archives released 1,000 declassified documents on the 1940 Katyn Forest Massacre on Monday. In case you’re not up on your mid-century...
View ArticleWTF Friday 11/30/2012, Opportunity Costs Edition
Yesterday one Lawrence E. Mitchell, Dean of Case Western Reserve Law School, published an Op-Ed in the New York Times entitled “Law School is Worth the Money.” It’s pretty funny. Amongst the gems...
View ArticleWTF Friday, 2/15/2013
Weird week, huh? In a move unprecedented in the modern era, Pope Benedict XVI decided to call it quits. No word yet on whether God will accept his resignation, but I don’t think we can ignore the...
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WTF Friday, Hashtag Edition
Stay classy, conservatives: the hashtag #LiberalTipsToAvoidRape spent much of this week trending on Twitter. Some choice excerpts: And a special WTF for Fox News’s Dana Perino, who apparently couldn’t...
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WTF Friday, 3/22/2013, Iraq Warlord Pet Edition
In honor of the 10th anniversary of the war in Iraq, we bring you a very special edition of our long-abandoned Warlord Pets series. RIP Barney, Dubya’s White House Dog: Barney the terrier lived at the...
View ArticleWTF Friday, Princeton Edition
This advice, from a Princeton alumna to the young women who are studying there today, is pretty much the worst: “Here’s what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate. Yes, I...
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WTF Friday, 7/5/13
This zebra is not in Nigeria. This week’s WTF Friday comes courtesy of young Abubakar Souleiman, a 15 year old Nigerian immigrant living in Boston with a creative sense of humor. Apparently, Souleiman...
View ArticleWTF Friday 7/12/13 (Okay, 7/13/13)
A late-breaking WTF Friday comes to us courtesy of the Texas State Legislature, which refused to let women bring tampons or maxi pads into the capitol building’s gallery during last night’s debate...
View ArticleWTF Friday, 7/26/13
In Germany, controversy has erupted over the town of Schwaebisch Gmuend’s plan to pay African asylum seekers 1.05 euros per hour to work as porters in the local train station: “Nine predominantly...
View ArticleWTF Friday, 8/2/13
This week’s WTF Friday traveled to the blog via Metro-North from New Haven. Yale University has released its latest Sexual Misconduct Report, which manages to avoid using the terms “rape” or “sexual...
View ArticleWTF Friday 9/13/13: Hugo Boss’s Nazism, Daily Mail’s Apologism
Apparently GQ kicked Russell Brand out of its Man of the Year party (at which he received the “Oracle Award,” a fact that you will soon discover adds a frisson of irony to the outcome of the evening)...
View ArticleWTF Friday, 9/20/13
Today’s WTF Friday comes from Australia, courtesy of newly-elected Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who appears to be using “WTF” as a guiding political principle. Abbott, the leader of the Liberal-National...
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WTF Friday, 10/4/13
Today’s WTF comes in the form of a game: how many WTFs can you spot in this article? First up, obviously, is this headline, which is amazing: “Gang-rape Survivor Battles Heavy Odds to Help Court Nail...
View ArticleWTF Friday, 2/7/2014
How did I miss the fact that the Austrian government has appointed a 27 year old as Foreign Minister? At an age when a quarter of Americans are apparently still living with their parents, this dude is...
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