Why “All Lives Matter” is Unhelpful
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June 4, 2020
The phrase may be well-meaning, but it dismisses the issue at the movement’s heart.
The Syndicate
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May 29, 2020
My city is burning. We all know why.
Does Daylight Need Saving?
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March 15, 2020
What’s the golden ratio for golf games to heart attacks?
Dawn of the Bernie Bro
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March 7, 2020
Bernie’s supporters are young, rowdy, and, worst, they know how to meme. Is that reason enough to disavow him?
Content Update
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March 7, 2020
Get in. We’re moving.
Ye Olde Thorn
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March 1, 2020
How one forgotten letter (barely) changed the English language forever.
China’s Counterfeit Cities
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February 23, 2020
China has a reputation for producing counterfeit technology, fashion, and Starbucks. Then there’s fake Paris.
844,000 Feet Under the Sea
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February 8, 2020
A brief history of the Dutch pastime of telling the ocean to fuck off.
Catalonia’s Coprophilic Christmas
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December 22, 2019
The Spanish autonomous region of Catalonia does Christmas differently. In Sweden’s Burning Christmas Goat, one of my holiday podcasts last year, I talked about their tradition of Tio de Nadal/Caga Tio, the shitting log. Brief recap for those of you who definitely listened: Families decorate a log for the holidays, feed it nuts (tree food) …
Our Democracy is Dumb
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November 23, 2019
Democracy is important. The ancient Greeks knew that. Everyone else forgot it for a couple thousand years, and then America remembered. Suffering beneath the widespread paw of the British tea-and-taxes machine, a spunky bunch of would-be American patriots found common ground in vanquishing the evil empire and building atop its ashes a democratic nation. Similar …