Three Handjobs Is A Trend

by Ben Dolnick

William Shatner, Reddit, And The Complications Of “Free Speech” On The Internet

by Whitney Phillips and Kate Miltner

How To Not Be Ezra Klein

Remember when I was all, “You know why I won’t do press?” and you were like, “Gee, let me guess, because nobody’s interested?” and I laughed my insouciant laugh even though your words hurt me very badly and I still hold a potent, furious grudge which most days I am barely able to…

Did Spencer Ackerman Get Beaten Up Enough As A Kid?

Low-Calorie Glass Shards Add Texture To Lean Cuisine Frozen Food

Toothless Woman’s Toothless Children Possibly Cola-Related

Here’s Your 2013 State of the Union Drinking Game (Political Ritual Edition)

Everyone Equally Annoying

“New research suggests the way in which we think of things and treat other people depends on whether we are single or in a relationship. In a new study, researchers discovered that people like to believe that their way of life — whether single or coupled — is the best for everyone…

Mary Magdalene Just “Super-Friendly”

“An article on Wednesday about the refusal by Ireland’s prime minister, Enda Kenny, to officially apologize to survivors of a Roman Catholic workhouse system that kept generations of young Irish women and girls in virtual slavery referred incorrectly to Mary…

You Can Walk or You Can Run

New York City, February 11, 2013

★★★ Steam seeped sideways in the heavy gray morning, unable to rise. Beady rain clung to the windows…

Jim James, “A New Life”

The Postal Service, “A Tattered Line of String”

Girl Good At Test

“The ‘normal’ teenager loves fake tanning, blonde highlights, manicures and getting dressed up for parties themed around her favourite reality TV show. She is the daughter of a black cab driver and dreams of one day being a performer in the West End — like Essex celebrity Denise Van Outen.”
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Judy Blume Is 75

Do kids read Judy Blume today? Or is it all vampires and British wizards and whatever? I don’t know, but for most of the people born roughly around the time that I was and for at least few years after she was an indispensable guide to the horror and dread that awaited us once our bodies changed…