Two Ridiculous Poems
Northern Anchovy
Engraulis mordax
Maximum Length: 24.8 cm (10 inches)
Maximum Weight: 68 g (0.3 oz.)
Maximum Age: 7 years
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Hyper Partisanship in Modern America
Pure partisanship is profoundly anti-intellectual, and can disable a person’s moral compass. It’s also a relatively recent development in America. Once upon a time, the Cold War and economic prosperity bound us together. But no more.
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A Straight Line
It’s a long, long way from the Trump administration to an actual fascist dictatorship, but it’s a straight line.
The New Memorial Day: Remembering Children Killed in School
It’s an exhaustive list, far longer and deeper than you might suspect. All the way back in 1840, student Joseph Semmes shot University of Virginia law professor John Anthony Gardner Davis.
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Older White Men
power, whether sought or granted, is like any other miscreant lover. It demands eternal youth and desperately seeks to punish the souls of those who spurn it.
I’m a Lot Like Donald Trump
These are confessions, not boasts.
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24 Things You Should Know about Pocahontas
She was about 9 years old when she met John Smith. When she converted to Christianity, she took the name Rebecca. She died while visiting England. She did not sing with raccoons.
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Happy Presidents Day!
A selection of memorials to executive barbarians and dandies.
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‘Tis the Season of Stale Bread and Sad Circuses
The sentimental holidays are behind us. The 3-day weekends of bright sunshine, burnt flesh, and drunken nationalism are still months away. Between them lay months of cocooning with your screens or ear budded jogs and dog walks.
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Two Greatest Assets
We’re quick to judge Donald Trump because it seems so easy; his character is so achingly shallow, but also because it is always far safer to judge others.
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