Sotheby’s Coughs Up Lots of Cash for Major Tobacco Company’s Art

British American Tobacco (BTI), the second largest cigarette maker in the world, has been extending their spindly claws of death towards the art world, scraping up $18.5 million for some paintings at Sotheby’s auction the other day. Not as scary as smokey poison peddlers sponsoring elementary schools in China, but still creepy.

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Taking a play out of the Haliburton handbook, retail monolith Walmart is also overcharging troops for services, in this case shipping. |Consumerist|

Evil Empirical

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Each week, ANIMAL will rank the world’s most despicable, deplorable, and undesirable human beings walking the earth, making the news. Behold: Evil Empirical. This week, your Media Deathlord Edition. Read more »

World’s Evilest Egg Hatchery Admits Evilness

After an animal rights group released undercover video showing workers mercilessly tossing live male chicks like beanbags at a major egg hatchery in Iowa, the owner did his own investigation and came to the same conclusion as them: the birds are mostly tortured. But the company says it’s all good now and released a statement promising to be less cruel moving forward. |AP|

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