January 2, 2019 0 So Long and Thanks for All the Fish In August of 2005, Hurricane Katrina ravaged the southeast United States. Among the many victims of the [...]
December 28, 2018 0 The Weekender, December 28, 2018 1) “I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon.” (The Atlantic, 11 [...]
December 24, 2018 0 We’re Gonna Find Out Who’s Naughty and Nice Awesome. Phenomenal. Wonderful. Fabulous. These are all words that one might use to emphatically articulate [...]
December 21, 2018 0 The Weekender, December 21, 2018 1) “The Postal Inspector Who Took Down America’s First Organized Crime Ring” (Politico, 15 [...]
December 20, 2018 0 A Smoker Walks Into a Bar and… In 1995, California became the first state to enact a sweeping smoking ban. Starting on the first of that [...]
December 18, 2018 0 Why Men Button Their Suits Like That “Sometimes, always, never.” Men’s suits typically come with two or three buttons, and [...]
December 17, 2018 0 The Starbucks That Never Gets Your Name Wrong When you order a drink at Starbucks, unless the barista is making it right then and there, he or she will ask [...]
December 14, 2018 0 The Weekender, December 14, 2018 1) “150 Minutes of Hell” (S.F. Chronicle, 19 minutes, December 2018). This is a story about [...]
December 12, 2018 0 The Transatlantic Battery Bunny Battle Picture a pink bunny rabbit. A toy one, playing a drum. It’s powered by a battery — in fact, [...]
December 11, 2018 0 Rodentia Intelligencia The technology of the world of international spies is typically boring, despite how TV and movies portray it. [...]