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“Tell us about Jessica!” said Pete (31) to his friend Melvin (30). “Are you excited to meet her in person?”
Melvin met Jessica (27) on Hinge, a hot new online dating app. Jessica seemed very promising: smart, beautiful, funny, cheerful, attentive, and balanced.
“Truth be told, she’s not that special,”...
Janice is about to begin a food cleanse tomorrow.
It will be 6 weeks of liquid only smoothies, no sugar. In the morning she will drink the juice of 21 freshly squeezed lemons. She will be taking herbal supplements to detox the liver and kill parasites.
To cap it off...
Hey you!
I hear you talking on your phone inside that cafe, that restaurant, and that grocery store.
My! Now you are having a video chat.
Oh look, here we meet again in this movie theater. I see you texting. I see how you glow… glow from within. Every movie...
“Just to be clear, I am an ally,” said Orwellian newspeak agent Syme. “Whether you’re heterosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, polysexual, pansexual, omnisexual, skoliksexual, demisexual, grey-ace, asexual, polyamorous, intersex, MTF, FTM, agender, genderfluid, bigender, trigender, pangender, genderqueer, demigirl, demiboy, androgyne, intergender, nonbinary, questioning, homoromantic, biromantic, panromantic, or aromantic.”
Then Syme adjusted their...
This is Mexico: 1840. Where would you build the wall?
The Mexican-American war of 1846-1848 took away Mexico’s land.
But the people stayed behind. People with families, kids, grandparents. There were close to 75,000 Mexicans living in the conquered territory, from California to Texas.
After the war, Mexicans had the choice...
Won't you be my neighbor? When I was a boy and I...
This is America - in minor key.
The noise can feel hollow.
I haven’t read a novel in ages.
A movie is too long to shut off my phone. Clips, 2 minutes, or less.
Gorgeous music shuffles by, moving me out of time and context.
I’ve been bitten these past...
The Miss America pageant has scrapped its swimsuit competition.
"We are no longer a pageant, we are a competition," said Gretchen Carlson, chairwoman of Miss America's board of directors. "We will no longer judge our candidates on their outward physical appearance. That's huge."
Miss America's origins began with an "Inter-City...
First Lady Melania Trump has not been seen for many weeks, once again, creating speculation about her whereabouts, with many theories veering into the realm of pure conspiracy.
After weeks of silence, on May 30th she stuck her head out and tweeted "I see the media is working overtime speculating...
“Shut up!” screamed John Johnson (46) to his nephew Liam (10). “You don’t know what you’re talking about.”
John Johnson is a devout atheist. And a proud one. He joined Mensa when he was 30. He teaches philosophy at Minnesota State Community College. Every year gives a portion of his...
He’s not on Facebook. He doesn’t have a cell phone. He doesn’t look at a newspaper or scribble in a journal.
He orders coffee, sits down, folds his hands, and looks outside the window. He blinks gently.
What's going on in mind? Is it a tormented tornado of doom?
He’s dressed modestly. No...