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Once I was in a cinema, peacefully trying to watch a movie, when it struck me that if I died right now, I would never have another Dorito. Then I

It makes sense to advise people to engage Republicans respectfully as part of a political strategy to change their votes, but to lecture people about how they should behave toward

Hi, my pet peeve is the fact that journalists routinely erase the work of ghost writers and pretend the rich and powerful are special geniuses who can easily write a

I've been reading a book about ethics, and it occurs to me ethics isn't just about what's right and wrong, it's about which issues are treated as ethical issues. Often

I can't be the only one who feels that the kidnapping conspiracy, and the general atmosphere of unhinged hatred toward Whitmer, is largely about misogyny. It even feels as if

A friend has sisters who are triplets. Two of them are identical twins and the third is a fraternal twin, and the identical twins invented a private language between themselves

I'm always amazed that, in discussions of standardized tests and how well different demographics do on them, no one mentions the disaffected kids who don't try very hard, or stop

This is a thread about prison abolition and reform, and a personal experience of mine that formed my convictions about it. It's also about the first George Bush and his

I'm completely exhausted with the horrible news and scenes of destruction and threats of martial law and plague. So if you need a break like me, I would like to

It's worth remembering that, until the 1960s, almost all the race riots in American history consisted of mobs of white men going into black neighborhoods to burn property and kill

When I first went to college, all the girls in my freshman year had a craze for sleeping with this very ordinary guy called Norm. He had limp blond hair

I'm really getting sick of left-wing accounts telling people not to vote, often with some vague hand-waving at the "structural change" (or equivalent phrase) that's needed instead. They don't specify