Joe Sapien is a regular columnist. He is currently floundering through grad school and running up debt. He never got to be a bully as a child, but he would have been pretty good at it.
This essay contains spoilers. There, you've been warned. Don't come whining to us later. As a writer, it’s easy to criticize. You can throw around rhetoric, slather your ideas in half-baked...
If we’re afraid we’re going to fail at something, then we’ll do anything to procrastinate. I'm convinced that it’s because we simply don’t want to contemplate the idea of failure until we...
I think you should know that I live a very peaceful existence. I can already hear your whisper, “A Zen-like outlook, and abs that look like you pulled that t-shirt over Roman gladiator armor....
The waiting is the worst. The knowledge that something truly awful is coming, and there’s nothing you can do but stand by and watch. You see, my blue pen is running out of ink, and there’s...
Wikipedia could very well be the single greatest repository of knowledge that our species has ever created. It’s incredibly accessible, cross-referenced, fractally complex and fantastic in scope....
EW is a magazine that takes itself seriously when it comes to movies. Their reviewers are the sort of people that will swirl their glass of dessert wine before giving you a lecture on French cinema...
Ben Bernanke made some vague, far-reaching statements recently concerning the economy. I won’t go into many of the specifics, for two reasons. The first is that, frankly, you’re on internet, and...
You might have noticed that the whole ’25 facts’/ '25 things about me' trend has turned into a full-blown Facebook craze. It got me thinking. And since a valued muse once told me that the list...
Joshua K. Frathole, of the prestigious AΣΣ fraternity deals with… A bad organic chemistry exam score: Hey, professor, appreciate you seein’ me. …Oh, yeah, it’s like 1:30. Office hours?...
This might surprise you, but I’m not exactly the star of the club scene. I know a lot of you have imagined me as the center of attention, lowering my sunglasses to playfully scold supermodels for...
