We wanted to understand the economic rationale for buying Greenland. So we talked to three unvaccinated UFC fans at a Jersey Mike's in Toms River.

Conservatives want America to be a white country. But they also want to exploit high tech workers from India and East Asia. Could a new form of apartheid be the solution?

Arthritic Dog Limping Through Park Like AT-AT

if you made art this year, you did well. a sketch, even if it was scrapped ; a poem, even if it was deleted — mattered. you put thought to paper, you engaged with the creative alchemy of turning feeling to something tangible. doesn't matter if you weren't productive "enough." or good "enough."

blue sky on Bluesky

Did Millennials kill Christmas?

The other swans aren't gonna believe this

I liked the New Jersey Drones old stuff. Started to get way too produced after their third album.

Boss: you should have been here at 8.

Me: why, what happened at 8?

Hairy Woodpeckers look almost identical to Downy Woodpeckers. The easiest way for me to tell a Hairy from a Downy is the black dots on the white tail feathers. Downys have dots, Hairy Woodpeckers have pure white tail feathers (like this one does!)

Today, I saw someone waving and I wasn't sure whether they were waving
at me or at someone behind me.

In other news, I was fired from my lifeguard job.

Why I’m still giving Hawk Tuah crypto currency the benefit of the doubt.

This CD player was my birthday present in 1997 along with the incomparable Fresh Hits 1997. I found it recently and COULD NOT BELIEVE how rich the sound was, after years of streaming Spotify on my phone. My column today is about this phenomenon, which I’m calling “qualitynesia” on.ft.com/3ZlwHf5

mmm. looks delicious.

I should’ve pardoned my son too.

I let Jebus go through all that, and for what?

Cats are standing by, ready to help you wrap presents this holiday season. Photo from my collection, 1964.

Welp, we really Clemsoned this one