A group of young people yelled “Poland for Poles!” at Rabbi Schudrich, then Schudrich was hit and sprayed with pepper gas.

Check out the target demographic on Bronx Shoes’ European homepage, and then compare it to the US homepage of the same company selling the same thing.

Hmmm….

(and yes, they’re both Bronx/diba/blink, as far as I can tell)

These guys (World Beard and Moustache Championship contestants) go without explanation. Shit, I’m jealous.

On a related note, the New York Times recently published an article called Paul Bunyan: A Modern Day Sex Symbol, which some of these guys must have read.

The New York Observer recently had this to say about the “divide” between North and South Brooklyn. To the North, we have Williamsburg, Bushwick, and Greenpoint; to the South, Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, and Fort Greene, among others. To the North, hipsters; to the South, babies. Living in Williamsburg, I’m [...]

Our DVD players of the future may seem more like they’re contraptions out of Cold War-era spy novels if Sony has anything to do with it. According to this site, the Blu-Ray Disc Association, led by Sony, has developed a standard for self-destructing DVD players:

This controversial technology would require that disc players maintain permanent connections [...]

Recent reports have stated that at least 81 people have been killed, thousands of prison inmates have rioted, and at least 200 have been taken hostage in an outbreak of gang-related violence in the Brazilian state of São Paulo.

I was going to write a long monologue about this, but instead, I’m just going to [...]

The New York Times reported today on Aziz Ridouan, the 18 year old French Net Activist who has, literally, taken the country by storm. He has appeared in full page spreads in Le Monde, on virtually every French TV channel, on the radio, on BBC News, and Time, to name a few.

What is it, though, [...]

Every once in a while over here at Reasoner we find a story that just transcends our bifurcated category system. I’m going to, however, maintain that this story was in fact reasonable, not on the part of the BBC, but instead that of the surprise guest.

Apparently the BBC had meant to interview Guy Kewney, [...]