American
Filibustin' with Willie D - Super PACs Make Some Terrible Political Ads
Romney is a member of a cult religion. They're going to need to come harder than this in November.
Is Six Flags Racist Against Dreadlocks?
Do locks really make you too unprofessional to clean up little kid vomit and flip burgers?
Explaining British TV to Americans
So there's a show sponsored by the London Tourism Board, a chef who swears and takes his shirt off, a bunch of people who can't talk about their feelings, and a serial choir-starter?
Buy American
I just bought some shares in an index fund that tracks the Wilshire 5000, which means I just bought shares in the 5,000 largest American companies. I did this because I wish...
I Was Looking For A Street
Charles Willeford transcended the crime genre to which he was relegated by most publishers and critics. But if Willeford only wrote pulp, then so did Dostoyevsky and Hemingway.
Harry Crews
Harry Crews had just about every job a man might have to take in his lifetime—from working in a cigar factory all the way up (or maybe down) to teaching creative writing.
I Ride With Jesus
The first time I met Preacher Mike and the Christian Crusaders was at the annual motorcycle meeting in Sturgis, South Dakota. Someone gave me an invitation to a Christian revival meeting for bikers. It sounded odd to me so I decided to go.
George Saunders
George Saunders is that rare sort of writer who may have gone ahead and invented a new genre.
Mycology 101
It’s always exciting to find some chanterelles because they grow symbiotically on tree roots and can’t be cultivated.
Outside-in
his was shortly after 9/11. I had read that two of the hijackers had worked at gas stations and used prepaid cell phones. My brain became alive with farts. I decided to conduct some cursory surveillance.
Inside-out
I’m an American and I work with what I guess you could call a sleeper cell here in New York City. I’m what George W. Bush and CNN would call a terrorist.