Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish: People Who Died
There’s no getting around it. The world is simply better off without some people.
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It Doesn’t End Well
What’s ultimate fate of humanity? It’s hard to picture a scenario that ends well.
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Let’s Get Radical
Democratic politicians must feel the breath of our voices so that they can finally learn which way the wind blows.
The Country Mouse and the City Mouse: A Brief History of American Identity, 1790-Present
Modern America’s red-blue divide, so fierce in its partisanship, filters through its ancient urban/rural tensions.
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There Was a Cat
Once upon a time there was a cat. He was smarter than you, and smarter than me. For want of a thumb he could have ruled the world.
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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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.
‘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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