Sometimes a story comes along that’s so good it doesn’t NEED to be punched up. This was the case yesterday when the N&O knocked it out of the park describing the gun bungling of state Alcohol Law Enforcement officers: Every agent at the N.C. Division of Alcohol Law Enforcement has a state-issued...

For the 99% of Raleigh Craigslist surfers who would never ever post in missed connections, navigating that portion of the site for a potential secret admirer is like wading through an ocean of piss: endless YMCA m4m posts, insecure creepers outing themselves (”I wanted to approach you, but didn’t...

There’s no voice I’d rather hear on Election Day 2010 than Jordan Murphy’s: Sorry, Richard Burr, you’re just a tool. But is Elaine Marshall the one to unseat him? Marshall, NC’s first female secretary of state, announced her Senate candidacy today. Her claim to fame was...

The Indy warned us back in June that our state Senate had passed a bill outlawing the “manufacture, sale, delivery, or possession” of Salvia divinorum. But it was the summer: you probably forgot all about the potential ramifications while having fun at the beach or hanging on Glenn Beck’s...

Former Raleigh mayor, current N.C. GOP chair and “public record heterosexual” Tom Fetzer is slick: dumping a late press release on the evening of NCSU’s boozy season opener. But he just couldn’t wait to drop his completely rational, non-controversial opinion that every school...

NCSU’s started up again with the largest freshman class EVER invading last week. Instead of grumbling about traffic,  I couldn’t be happier that school’s back after witnessing the “nightlife” of the past few months. Take a look: The Black Flower Ugly Monkey Ocean...

Meet Zakk White, staff columnist for NC State’s Technician. Zakk’s pictured at left looking every bit the part of a College of Engineering nerd (minus the glasses. and acne. and NCSU Get Booked Early shirt). He’s pissed! Our beautiful, state-funded campus will host the living embodiment...

When the Las Vegas Sun revealed last year that then-Sen. Barack Obama’s favorite show was The Wire, and furthermore to that, his favorite character in his favorite show was Omar, it was this confluence of awesome: something I liked very much met with someone I liked more every day. So I smiled...

As you can see, ABC11 reports a raging blowout: John was there! There’s a great faked shot of him just chillin’ at 00:28, but the rest of the segment is can’t-be-snarked-with painful, especially the separate Edwards questions, carefully answered at the end.  Also painful: coordinating...

Right now I’m feeling a little like Larry David before the election. Health care. Tired of the vitriol, the distortions, the Sarah P. treatises on Facebook, the every day a new video outburst, the horse-race coverage, all of it. It’s a goddamn spectacle. On something everyone has already...