The Sock Fairy: A Complicated Relationship

Life is full of irritations, major and minor. One of the minor irritations is the activity of the Sock Fairy, the sprite who seems to inhabit all washing machines, at least all ...

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates: “All Is Fog”

Which trait most accounts for the spectacular career of Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic’s race blogger–turned–intellectual superstar? Coates, widely assumed to be America’s ...

“Sambogate”

Move over, Muhammad; you’re no longer the only sacred icon that can’t be drawn as a cartoon. Black people are now on the small and exclusive list of things that will spark an ...

No Burritos For You!

I"€™m not a fan of Mexican food, for reasons which should be obvious. Although I hold Mexicans in the highest esteem as a proud and noble (if exceedingly short) people, they ...

Bill Nye

Bill Nye’s Fake Science

Bill Nye became famous in the 1990s with a PBS kids"€™ show called Bill Nye The Science Guy. His new series for Netflix is called Bill Nye Saves the World. See the difference ...

When Jilted Lovers Commit Hate-Crime Hoaxes

This is a story of love, hate, interracial romance, journalistic malpractice, and anti-Semitic bomb hoaxes. It involves a young black man named Juan, whose mother named him that ...

The Anti-Women March on Washington

If you"€™re baffled by a women's march that excluded thousands of women and was run by an extremist Muslim, well then you “literally just can"€™t even,” which is ...

Neo Realism

Get your red pill ready"€”the Matrix is real. At least that's what a bunch of tech nerds think. Two high-dollar Silicon Valley investors are paying scientists mondo bucks to ...

Leslie Jones

I Ain”€™t Afraid of No Black Women

America is obsessed with keeping black women happy. The bigotry of low expectations is strong with the treatment of black men, but when it comes to they baby mommas, shit is off ...

When Dads Breastfeed Their Kids

No matter what one may think of transvestites trannies transsexuals transgender people, it’s hard to deny that they are tremendous entertainers. Few other allegedly ...

Give Hate a Chance

J"€™aime Paris. And by "€œaime"€ I mean "€œlove,"€ not "€œlike."€ I proposed to my wife under the Eiffel Tower and have been visiting regularly since the "€™80s ...

No Kids Allowed

I"€™ve oft complained about the infantilization of American adults, but something strange is happening. We"€™re going from "€œComic books aren"€™t just for kids ...

Dear Martians

Last week, NASA confirmed that there is water on Mars. This could be some kind of cross-promotional hullabaloo for the movie The Martian, which came out this week, or it could ...

One Foot in the Bunker

It was a bad night for Boris. Emmy award-winning composer Boris Zelkin (also known as the conservative pundit "€œLenin's Barber"€) and I had just engaged in a valiant online ...

Some Pity for a Human Mastodon

The ways of human perversity are legion, and secretly we are glad of it, for it would be a dull world"€”a kind of ideal Switzerland raised to a higher power"€”without them. ...

Moral and Comedic Anorexia

I owe everything I know about British seaside resorts (such as the unfortunately named Blackpool) to three pseudo"€“kitchen sink movies and a single Squeeze song. No wonder I ...


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