January 2011
46 posts
Jan 1st
97 notes
Welcome to the Hipocalypse →
Think about it. Why else would we eschew “real” jobs for things like baking, bartending or making coffee, all of which are, I might add, entirely end-times-proof professions? (You think people won’t need coffee after the world ends? Or a drink? Trust me, when those four horsemen ride in you’ll be begging for some of our small-batch-hand-distilled whiskey. Begging.) Living without health...
Jan 1st
December 2010
59 posts
Dec 31st
Housing: Ackman vs. Shilling →
Dec 30th
Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness →
Dec 30th
Evan Williams: The Challenges of a Web of Infinite... →
Dec 30th
Nasty, Brutish and Not That Short →
Dec 29th
The Hopper Question →
Dec 29th
Caring for Your Introvert →
Dec 28th
Don't Spin the Civil War →
Dec 27th
When Parents Text →
Dec 27th
Santa Claus Is a Gay Couple Living in Chelsea →
Dec 27th
Want a Safe Place to Raise Kids? Look to the... →
Dec 27th
The Truth About Sex Difference Is That If Men Are... →
Dec 26th
Suicide Bombers: Fanatics, or Suicidally... →
Dec 26th
Do Christians Overemphasize Christmas? →
Dec 26th
Dec 23rd
Santa's Privacy Policy. →
At Santa’s Workshop, your privacy is important to us.
Dec 23rd
Museums Should Dig In →
Dec 23rd
Siberian Fossils Were Neanderthals’ Eastern... →
Dec 22nd
Dec 22nd
101 notes
Buy vs. Rent: An Update →
It’s pretty amazing when you think about it. The country has suffered through a terrible crash in home prices, yet buying a house remains an iffy proposition in many markets.
Dec 22nd
Dec 21st
171 notes
Wiki Ignorance Test →
Dec 21st
When Was Jesus Born? →
Dec 20th
The Year in Ideas: The 10th Anniversary Special →
Dec 20th
Groupon Clipping →
Dec 20th
Europe Rules That Dan Flavin and Bill Viola... →
Dec 18th
The Future As She Was Spoke →
Dec 17th
Town Mute for 30 Years About a Bully’s Killing →
Dec 17th
Mick Without Moss →
Dec 17th
'Belgium Has No Future' →
Who knew Belgium was such a hotbed of separatism.
Dec 17th
Dec 16th
Art’s Subterranean Disneyland →
Dec 16th
Welcome to My Hypersensitivity Training Workshop →
Dec 16th
In the Land of Sheba: A Pilgrimage to Ethiopia →
Dec 16th
Toy Stories: a Day in the Life of a Personal... →
Dec 16th
Osama Bin Laden, Stockpickr, and Everything I Know... →
Dec 16th
The Inequality That Matters →
Dec 16th
Dec 15th
The Questions We Never Answered  →
Why are large, extensive tattoos always Asian-themed? When did the slang word ho first appear? I ask because I think I invented it around 1986-87 when I was in the fifth grade as a joke, but I continued to use it and it spread through my school and before long it was everywhere. It is possible that the term was coined earlier and I just hadn’t heard it yet, but I can’t seem to find...
Dec 15th
Dec 14th
Nude Breach →
Dec 13th
Dec 10th
Yes, But →
JEFFERSON WRITES ‘DECLARATION,’ BUT BRITISH VOW ARMS BUILD-UP
Dec 10th
Anonymous Preparing for New Wikileaks Effort →
There is no period in human history that matches the years between 1990 and 2010 in the degree to which the common terminology used at end would have been unrecognizable to those who lived at its beginning. Because the dynamic which has caused this to be the case does not seem to have crested, we ourselves should not expect to recognize some great portion of the terminology that will be in...
Dec 9th
Dec 9th
61 notes
Social Science Palooza →
All of the alliteration is coincidental.
Dec 9th
Steve Wolfe’s Superflat Simulacra →
Dec 9th
Mormon Feminism: Old Wine in New Wineskins →
Dec 8th