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Wednesday, June 26th, 2013

Women in Military Continue to Insist on Being Raped, Pentagon Insider Says

A Pentagon employee recently spoke to the Gabbler on the condition of anonymity, saying that despite its best efforts, women in the military continue to insist on being raped and reporting it to their superiors. His main contention with the issue of sexual assault in the military was that women are persistent in their “desire

Monday, June 17th, 2013

Taking on Tax Havens: Bermuda Edition

British Prime Minister David Cameron spent this past weekend negotiating a tax transparency agreement with the UK’s overseas territories, in an apparent attempt to curtail legal tax avoidance. In order to get to the bottom of what...

Monday, June 10th, 2013

BorrowAPhone and Never Be Lost Again!

The following ad was emailed to The Gabbler offices as part of a campaign to reach urban millenials. It offers a service called BorrowAPhone that provides rentable smart phones to people who find themselves without their phones...

Monday, June 3rd, 2013

Here Comes the Sun

For millennia, science-minded men and women have looked to the skies for the answers to life’s greatest questions. Why are we here? Are we alone in the universe? If I’m a Scorpio and he’s a Capricorn can...

Wednesday, May 29th, 2013

Yahoo! Spokeswoman Meets with Disgruntled Tumblr User

Today, Yahoo spokeswoman Sara Gorman met with an anonymous, disgruntled Tumblr user to record a podcast discussing the recent $1.1 billion purchase of the blogging platform by Yahoo, in an attempt to assuage Tumblr user concerns over...

Monday, May 20th, 2013

Shit Not to Say on a First Date

“Have you heard about that new drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea?” “Oh, you’re from Texas? I have this thing for cowboys. But only because of some pretty intense erotica I’ve been reading lately.” “Hast thou not heard, my...

Monday, May 13th, 2013

When I See You with Her

The following personal essay was sent anonymously to The Gabbler this past Friday. In the submission email the author, self-described as “a young, heartbroken female,” explained her many attempts to publish this piece on Thought Catalog by...

Monday, May 6th, 2013

How to Be the Only Sober One at a Party and Still Have Fun

Over two years ago, The Gabbler’s Jessica Pierce was forced to give up drinking after her sixth hangover-induced seizure. Since then she has often had the pleasure of being the only sober person at the party. What...

Monday, April 29th, 2013

The Soul of a Spreadsheet Revealed

The world runs on Microsoft Excel. From economists, to statisticians, to twentysomethings attempting to track their spending in the hopes of one day creating a reasonable budget, everyone relies on its row and column layout and helpful...

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