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The Fate Button
Click the damn button. We tap Facebook to reveal your horrible yet deeply comforting fate.
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Culture
“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,...
Culture
Science & Health
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...
Art
Science & Health
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...
Inspired
Art
Nature
Inspired
“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,...
Culture
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. ...
Art
Won't you be my neighbor? When I was a boy and I...
Art
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...
Inspired
Culture
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...
Science & Health
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...
Nature
Religion
“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...
Culture
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....
