Beaten With a Candlestick

"Colonel Mustard" holding a candlestick in a library

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I Wanna Be Your Dog | J.W. McCormack
McGruff the Crime Dog was complicit with the war on drugs.
Growing Up in a Sex Cult
In the 1980s, when Inka Winter was just four years old, her mother dropped her off at the headquarters of a “socialist living experiment” just outside Vienna, Austria. Inka’s dad had long-since abandoned them both, and her mother was broke. So she decided to leave Inka in the care of the Friedrichshof Commune while she […]
The Search for the Face Behind Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
The filmmakers behind “Seeking Mavis Beacon” wanted to know what happened to the Black woman who was paid only a couple hundred dollars to be the face of a wildly successful typing program. To find out, they had to do some “trolling.”

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Caption: Popeye at the gym doing the bench press
Caption: Popeye at the gym doing the bench press

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