the media
You Can't Just Walk Around Masturbating in Public, Swedish People
After a 65-year-old man was acquitted of indecency charges after jacking it on a public beach, international media outlets reported that it was OK to masturbate on beaches in Sweden. This is not true, everyone!
Reality TV and the Selling of Love
The love The Bachelorette constantly references isn’t recognizable because it’s love as panacea—the idea that love itself, not the thing you love, not the goodness love inspires in you, will set you free and save you from your shit job and...
The Least Important Important Thing
I would not and should not be writing about sports if I didn't think they were a way to better understand and enjoy a complicated moment-to-moment existence—not to mention a pretty righteous excuse to tell that existence to fuck off for a couple hours...
How Are We Supposed to Know What the Government Does?
The most important reason that the media exists is to tell the public what’s happening and what the people in power are doing about it. That’s increasingly difficult when the decisions that matter are shrouded in multiple levels of secrecy.
National Shouting Day
National Signing Day, the least telegenic televised "event" of all time, is a giddy beef auction presided over by the psychotic golf dads who coach high-level college football covered as if it were a moon landing.
