by Juliet Lapidos
All writing is fraud, but menu writing is so over-the-top grasping and pretentious in its fraudulence that it makes regular writing read like our language’s most honest, elucidating prose.
In any reasonable world the frequency with which our ludicrously self-important political handicappers prove themselves incompetent at the only skill with which they are supposed to have any facility would result in shame, scorn and termination. As it…
Jittery but not anxiety-inducing. Enjoy.
★ Not enough rain was falling, or not big enough drops of it, to justify opening the little green umbrella on…
Please and thank you.
“Pandemics, asteroids, nuclear war, and sudden, destructive climate change” — one of these things might take us out as a species, but there’s nothing to stop you from getting greedy and wishing for all of them at the same time.
