With the departure of Kirstjen Nielsen — who, rumor has it, has been lured away with a lucrative package from Jadis, the White Witch, and feels that the eternal snows of occupied Narnia go better...
Like most out and proud nerds, I am a fan of the superhero genre. I don’t always claim to understand its full scope and breadth, and I’m pretty damn picky about what parts of it I choose to pay...
I feel for wealthy helicopter parents. They’re a maligned demographic. All they want is for their prized possessions, I mean, children, to have the best of everything, at all costs, every single...
I know what you’re thinking — ”Another North Korea summit? But wasn’t the great dealmaker in chief supposed to have solved everything with the last one?” I mean, sure. He was. Kind of. But...
I have a confession to make. I am grateful to all of the people taking to the internet to point out that if they see as much as one snowflake, climate change (or “global warming,” as they like to...
As you might have heard, the Russia Thing is on the loose in the United States and it’s causing a lot of consternation in the halls of power. The intellectual giant known as the president’s...
In case you missed it, there’s a little thing called the longest government shutdown in history going on in the richest nation in the world right now — and it has to do with the sentient wig we...
You may have heard that Saturn is losing its rings at a catastrophic rate — but have you also heard about the upcoming heat death of the universe? The science on the latter is a bit less concrete,...
People are people — they like to make sense of things with lists. Even when it comes to the utterly senseless — they try to make sense of it with lists. As far as senselessness goes, 2018 was a...
There’s a lot of killing in the world, and I don’t just mean those parts of your soul that die each time someone tries to get you to weigh in on the Cardi B vs Nicki Minaj situation. The holidays...
