Futon for sale. Sturdy wood frame with small queen mattress and blue mattress cover. 80″ x 50″ when flat. 32″ high in couch mode. Used. I first encountered this futon when it was fairly new, serving as the bed in…
Category: A Day in the Life
Gina Haspel and the 87%
A little over a week ago, in the wake of mass outrage over the confirmation of Gina Haspel, avowed torturer as the new Director of the CIA, I asked myself a question. Then, I asked 71 of my closest friends.…
No Cano, No Problem?
After the Buffalo Bills somehow made the playoffs on the last day of the 2017 NFL season, the dubious distinction of longest playoff drought in American professional sports fell to my beloved Seattle Mariners. In 2001, they set the record…
For the Love of Dichotomies!
Remember The Dress? That’s the question that’s prefaced many a fluffy thinkpiece in the last 48 hours as the purported audio version of The Dress was unleashed upon the Internet: a three-second sound-clip which sounds, of all things, like either…
Snacks for Thought
I’ve been reading a ton this spring, which is a welcome change from last year, when I read close to a decade-low number of both books and pages. I heard Junot Diaz on the radio a few weeks ago during…
Letter to My Unconceived Child on the Occasion of Your Shooting Death
Dear Child, In the wake of your untimely and altogether regrettable death by firearm in the United States of America, the question must certainly occur to you, as it does to your mother and I, whether this tragic ending was…
Grace, Aziz, and the Seemingly Inexplicable: What I Got Wrong
Last week, I posted a six-point treatise on what we could learn from the Grace/Aziz Ansari encounter first documented in the (in)famous Babe.net article written by Katie Way. I cheekily noted that no one would agree with all of the…
Let’s Talk About Norms, Baby
Content warning: language, sex and sexual encounters, sexual coercion, rape and rape culture In thinking about how I would compose this post, which is largely about Aziz Ansari and his exposure in the recent, universally-read Babe.net article, it occurred to…
America’s Inability to Be Self-Critical
is (Literally) Killing Us
“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football, and it would be selfish on my part to…
White Supremacy and America’s Legacy
Hi, I’m Storey and I’m a white guy. Hi, Storey. Admitting you have a problem is the first step, right? Not being in denial that your behavior, your personhood, is contributing to the problems and detriment of those around you.…