Great Articles

[Baldric]

If you are brave then do a google image search for krokodil.

 

[Joe Mac]

The Monster of Florence

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2006/07/the-monster-of-florence/4981/

 

[Joe Mac]

If you are brave then do a google image search for krokodil.

Make sure you are brave and not eating your breakfast. Fark, that was disgusting!

 

[Joe Mac]

Star-to-Be Who Never Was​

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/sports/basketball/lenny-cooke-star-to-be-who-never-was.html

 

[Joe Mac]

Australia’s Changing View of the Dingo​

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/science/australias-view-of-the-dingo-evolves.html

 

[Joe Mac]

Beer
http://www.readability.com/read?url...fa_fact_bilger?printable=true&currentPage=all

 

[Joe Mac]

This one is particularly good!

The Beau Brummels of Brazzaville​

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903927204576574553723025760.html

 

[Joe Mac]

Here are 5 Skip Hollandsworth articles. Highly recommended.

See No Evil

How does a perfect gentleman become a vicious murderer? For Charles Albright, it all began with an obsession with eyes.

http://www.texasmonthly.com/cms/printthis.php?file=feature.php&issue=1993-05-01

Midnight in the Garden of East Texas

Marjorie Nugent was the richest widow in an eccentric town full of rich widows. Bernie Tiede was an assistant funeral home director who became her companion. When she disappeared, nobody seemed alarmed. When he confessed to killing her, nobody seemed outraged.


http://www.texasmonthly.com/cms/printthis.php?file=feature4.php&issue=1998-01-01
Honor Thy Father

They seemed like the perfect team. Bill Butterfield was a former Texas high school football star, renowned for his speed and power. His son Lance, a gifted defensive back, was determined to follow in his footsteps. But in Lance’s senior year—his championship season—something went wrong. A story of youth and passion, obedience and trust, insanity and murder.


http://www.texasmonthly.com/cms/printthis.php?file=feature2.php&issue=1998-06-01

The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob

He wore a Western hat, never spoke a word, and robbed bank after bank. When the feds finally arrested him, they discovered that their suspect was actually a soft-spoken woman. They thought they’d never hear from her again— but she had other plans.

http://www.texasmonthly.com/cms/printthis.php?file=feature3.php&issue=2005-11-01

The Lost Boys

In December 1970 two teenagers disappeared from the Heights neighborhood, in Houston. Then another and another and another. As the number of missing kids grew, no one realized that the most prolific serial killer the country had ever seen—along with his teenage accomplices—was living comfortably among them. Or that the mystery of what happened to so many of his victims would haunt the city to this day.

http://www.texasmonthly.com/cms/printthis.php?file=feature.php&issue=2011-04-01

 

[Joe Mac]

Brilliant article on the arms dealer the movie 'Lord of War' is based on;

Viktor Bout, Arms Dealer, and His Rise and Fall

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/03/05/120305fa_fact_schmidle?currentPage=all

 

[Torn Hammy]

Thanks JM.

"Honor Thy Father"

Why is it that the adult spouse of these monstrous parents get sympathy and not blame. Watching a mad sadist mind fuck your kids is serious child abuse. If the law made this clear with prosecutions, then there would be more people making a stand against psychopathic parents.

 

[Joe Mac]

The Man Who Broke Atlantic City

Don Johnson won nearly $6 million playing blackjack in one night, single-handedly decimating the monthly revenue of Atlantic City’s Tropicana casino. Not long before that, he’d taken the Borgata for $5 million and Caesars for $4 million. Here’s how he did it.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...ho-broke-atlantic-city/8900/?single_page=true

 

[Joe Mac]

How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp

There was torture, starvation, betrayals and executions, but to Shin In Geun, Camp 14 – a prison for the political enemies of North Korea – was home. Then one day came the chance to flee…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/16/escape-north-korea-prison-camp

 

[Joe Mac]

Escape from Iran: One Man's Journey From Riches to the Torture Chamber to Freedom



The story of how an Iranian businessman helped his country develop the world's largest natural gas field, got involved with the president's depraved son, and ended up fighting for his life.

http://www.theatlantic.com/internat...hes-to-the-torture-chamber-to-freedom/254746/

 

[Joe Mac]

Sugar Ray Leonard: ‘I felt safe in the ring. My heart turned icy’


http://thelonggoodread.com/2012/03/21/sugar-ray-leonard-i-felt-safe-in-the-ring-my-heart-turned-icy/

 

[Bruwheresmycar]

Not an article, but interesting/entertaining documentary/video. (he is scoring goals in the dark about 20 mins)

 

[Joe Mac]

Betting on the Blind Side
Michael Burry always saw the world differently—due, he believed, to the childhood loss of one eye. So when the 32-year-old investor spotted the huge bubble in the subprime-mortgage bond market, in 2004, then created a way to bet against it, he wasn’t surprised that no one understood what he was doing. In an excerpt from his new book, The Big Short, the author charts Burry’s oddball maneuvers, his almost comical dealings with Goldman Sachs and other banks as the market collapsed, and the true reason for his visionary obsession.
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/04/wall-street-excerpt-201004?printable=true

 

[Joe Mac]

Say Hello to an Extraterrestrial Ocean — and Maybe Extraterrestrial Life​

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2109837,00.html#ixzz1qI8zHSMI​

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2109837,00.html?xid=tweetbut

 

[Joe Mac]

The Hells Angels motto, "When we do right, nobody remembers. When we do wrong, nobody forgets,"

Great gallery and info from a photographer who lived with a angels for a month. Worth a read. The story behind photo 29 is awesome
http://life.time.com/culture/never-seen-hells-angels-1965/?iid=lb-gal-viewagn

 

[Joe Mac]

Methed up

Attempts to prohibit the drug have caused a cottage industry to scale up

http://www.economist.com/node/21551026

 

[Joe Mac]

The Brand (The Aryan Brotherhood)​

http://www.txtpost.com/the-brand/