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“30 Reasons Girls Should Call It a Night”

What Facebook group boasts nearly 150,000 members and a collection of nearly 5,000 photos of young women passed out on the pavement, collapsed in shrubbery, peeing in bushes and vomiting in toilets (or on themselves)? “30 Reasons Girls Should Call It a Night.”

Don’t be fooled by the name — the group heralds out-of-control drunkenness as a badge of cool. We’re not just talking about slurred declarations of love, getting loose on the dance floor or vomiting in public, but, in some cases, a-couple-of-drinks-away-from-dead incapacitation. For instance, under the group’s discussion of “worst place you ever woke up,” one woman writes: “the hospital … nouf said.” The group also celebrates the, oh, minor embarrassments of drinking too much — like having a photo of yourself taking a squat on someone’s lawn published for the entire Facebook community to see.

Getting drunk and gett’n into a little trouble has been part of a rite of passage for many young adults for a few generations now ( see This Side of Paradise published in 1920 or Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller published in 1934). To celebrate and document the puking, the passing out on city streets, to film someone hugging a toilet or defecating in public then to preserve it for posterity on the net… is. Well I don’t know. Why. What’s that about. Why would someone, actually thousands of people find this entertaining and some that are happy to be participants. Whatever happened to being discreet about one’s bout’s of debauchery.

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Blackwater - They’re Christian Supremacists With a Conversion Agenda [VIDEO] 

 Bill Maher interviewed Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, on the most recent episode of Real Time. I a just a few minutes Scahill covers the mercenary army’s origins (they’re named after a swamp), its leader Erik Prince (who has deep ties with the extremist far right) and its plans for world domination (opening bases all over the country, thousands of men they can send to international and domestic conflicts of natural disasters.) Maher and Scahill also talk about how Blackwater mercenaries are better paid and have better armor than American troops in Iraq and how they make fighting the insurgency more difficult since they “commit crimes, shoot up Iraqis” and then the Iraqis retaliate against American troops.