They said I couldn’t do inspirational stuff and they were right…
Year: 2019
On the Attack With the Fighting Russian Girlfriends
Pamela Toler’s Women Warriors: An Unexpected History highlights lesser-known women who have gone into battle, such as Maria Vasilyevna Oktiabrskaya, a Russian mechanic in World War II who drove a tank christened “The Fighting Girlfriend.” […]
Texas Men Seeding the Country’s Financial Future?
According to a report on Twitter, a Texas representative has proposed a new law that will make masturbation illegal and the state will fine men $100 each time they masturbate. The satirical law was proposed […]
Interpreting Rejection Messages from The New Yorker: An Author’s Guide
Writing humor is hard. Just ask Dostoyevsky. Sure, he scored big with Crime and Punishment, but do you know how many copies of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gulag were sold? […]
“Whole Language” Yuppies Move In, and Phonics Junkies Are Forced Out
BOSTON. The neighborhood here known as the South End has historically been a transitional stop on the way up–or down–the social ladder. “We got the winos and junkies who lost their last best hope of […]
