To the woman at the bra store who clocked me as a “Gerry” in reference to my G-cup breasts when I was coming of age, I’m certain you haven’t spared one thought for me since our only encounter nearly twenty years ago. But your impact on my life has been so significant that I’...
I care deeply about my students’ learning, but with all the new technologies available to help them cut corners, I worry that they’re not doing the deep thinking necessary to learn. That’s why I’ve been prompting AI to create lesson plans and assignments for me that will eng...
Welcome, neighbors, come on in. There’s plenty of room for everyone, aside from God. He has no place inside this well-ventilated, open-concept embodiment of runaway capitalism. What you see before you is my 14,000-square-foot testament to taste, triumph, and unrepentant hubr...
“A comedy festival in the capital of Saudi Arabia has become a cultural flash point as major comedians face criticism for accepting seemingly lucrative deals to perform in a country that was virtually impossible to visit until 2019 and a pariah in much of the West for its hu...
“President Trump’s declaration on Saturday that he had authorized the use of federal forces to ‘protect war-ravaged’ Portland, Ore., prompted bewilderment and frustration—and more than a little sarcasm—in the city this weekend.” — New York Times - - -
Help reshelve the book...
Welcome to your new high-end Italian espresso machine. Or should we say, bonjourno? Yes, we should. Your espresso machine only speaks Italian. To get the most out of the machine, you must learn the language. We will wait. Fourteen Months Later. Remove the machine from the bo...
Hey, thanks so much for coming tonight. I’ve just checked with everyone else at the party, and we’re all in agreement that you behaved really normally and didn’t say anything weird or worrying at all. - - -
Even though your face looks alarmingly like a mole’s in that picture...
How you do anything is how you do everything. If you don’t put your best foot forward at every single opportunity, then you are wasting the precious few steps you have on this earth. You can’t half ass things. Everything you do, do it with your best foot and your entire ass....
Places Charles Johnson’s drawings appeared when he was a young cartoonist: A catalog for a magic company Mimeographed church bulletins The Daily Egyptian The Southern Illinoisan - - -
For more than forty years, Charles Johnson has been a fixture on the literary scene in Se...
Well, here we are. Although many believed that aggressive cuts to our country’s arts funding and national granting organizations by our current administration would have made it impossible to continue to mount adventurous performances of creative merit, we are overjoyed to p...
Calm down, Chicken Little. The stock market is not a bubble. Just because it’s a thin sphere of liquid that expands every second of every day doesn’t mean it’s a bubble. It could be anything. You’re worried. You’re saying numbers can’t go up and up forever. I’m saying take a...
A: Hey! Just saw your message. Sorry for the delay—got swallowed by a glacier that migrated south. I’m inside the ice now. Surprisingly roomy. Hope you’re well. B: Oh my god, I’m so glad you made it through. That must’ve been really frightening. I’ve been meaning to check in...
“For this reason, they are strongly recommending that women limit Tylenol use during pregnancy unless medically necessary. That’s, for instance, in cases of extremely high fever, that you feel you can’t tough it out, you can’t do it. I guess there’s that. It’s a small number...
I am a drowning man, sinking under the weight of expectation, pulled toward the murky depths of adult fallibility. I’m glad my children love going to this zoo every weekend, but with each trip around their favorite enclosure, I’m reminded of my mortal limitations. I must sha...
So I’ve been waiting for this meeting for twenty years, actually. And it’s not that everything’s a hundred percent understood or known, but I think we’ve made a lot of strides. I wish it was done a long time ago. Today, we’re delighted to be joined by America’s top medical a...
“CDC panel recommends multiple shots for measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox instead of a single vaccine… Experts react with concern that increasing the number of vaccinations required will threaten children’s health.” — The Guardian - - -
At long last, our government is...
“My grandfather used to say ‘and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel’ and I never knew what it meant until after he died my grandmother explained some magazine did a fluff interview with Magda Goebbels a few years before WW2 that included her strudel recipe and my grandfathe...
First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of this freaky-ass harvest with the brand-new Decorative Gourd Diner Mug. - - -
I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get my ha...
The following message has been approved by the FCC, Louisiana Commissar’s Branch. - - -
David Ernest Duke, devoted father, community leader, and passionate advocate for his beliefs, passed away peacefully of natural causes on February 17, 2033, at the age of 82. Mr. Duke ear...
1. “And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God… unless of course that rich man makes over $10 million a year, in which case his wealth will create jobs in the Kingdom of Heaven.” ...
With apologies to Three Dog Night. - - -
In the wake of recent events, we feel it’s time to speak up. We’ve heard your calls for a statement on the subject of Jeremiah, a bullfrog we’ve long referred to as our friend. Your comments, your direct messages, and your anthrax thr...
“It feels like there’s this river running underneath my whole life. It’s always there; I just have to step into it.” - - -
Sheila Heti and I met at the Gladstone, a beautiful old hotel in the West Queen West neighborhood of Toronto, on a cold, snowy January weekend. She wa...
“President Trump said networks giving him negative coverage may deserve to have their licenses revoked, ramping up threats administration officials have made in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing.” — Axios - - -
I really like free speech. I love it, some might say. I love ho...
“ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel off air for Charlie Kirk comments after FCC pressure.” — New York Times - - -
The FCC has long held that “the public interest is best served by permitting free expression of views.” But given recent events, we recognize there may be some confusion abo...
Everyone says that this new crop of American Nazis is really mean, but I, a white journalist, went out to talk to them for this profile, and they were actually really nice. I mean, sure, when I first met George Nathan Bedford Forrest Wallace on his compound, I was a little t...
“We are going to have to live here with one another, believing what we believe, disagreeing in the ways we disagree… To recognize that does not mean we don’t disagree.” — New York Times columnist Ezra Klein, speaking on his podcast - - -
The data are in: We have far too much...
Hi, I was hoping someone at Facebook Support could potentially help me with this issue. Earlier this week, I uploaded a lovely set of wedding photos to my Facebook only to receive this message: “Your photos have been labeled as AI-generated and may be deprioritized in feeds....
You’ve Always Been This Way is a column written by Taylor Harris, a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman and 1980s preschool dropout, who identifies every moment from her past that filled her with shame, and mutters, “Yep, that tracks. I see it all now.” - - -
In another worl...
About Me Have been out of the nodding pool for quite a while, but would like to dip my toe back in. Not looking for anything serious. No preference for male or female, as long as no genuine human connection is made. Not into witty banter or humorous asides. Meaningful conver...
