Me and My Big Gutta-Percha Mouth
It was one of those unpleasant things that is best endured in silence and without complaint. I had had one prior experience with a root canal so I knew what the . . . ahem […]
Year: 2026
Study Finds Widespread Irony Deficiency Among WASPs
WESTLAND, Mass. It’s 3 p.m. on a Thursday, milk and cookies time at the Shady Lane Nursery School in this upscale suburb of Boston, but the pre-schoolers here are under observation by more adults than […]
Future Karens of America Helps Girls Adjust to Others’ Incompetence
KALAMAZOO, Michigan. Yesterday was Jenny Banazak’s first day of fourth grade, but an observer of the little girl as she walked into class might be forgiven for thinking it was her mother Chloe who was […]
Fantasy Football, Existentialist Style
At first, I had no idea I was in hell. I was lying in the same street I walk every day at noontime on my way to lunch. “What happened?” I asked the man who […]
Let Nice People Finish First, the Dolly Parton Edition
Sometimes it’s nice just to be … nice. Being nice has gone out of favor. Our heroes these days are anti-heroes, maybe even a step over, to … well, let’s call it anti-villains. I’ll come […]