12 Predictions for the Year 2157
The impoverished will share robo-bodies in kibbutzim. They will be the final inhabitants of the Earthzone.
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How Lok’d Out Are You on “Regulators”?
Warren’s wealth consists of which of the following:
1. An employer-sponsored 401k.
2. A first pressing 7″ of the Super Bowl Shuffle signed by William “the Refrigerator” Perry.
3. His rings, Rolex.
4. Equity from his primary residence.
Square Dancing, A Mather of Life & Death
‘Tis the season to swing one’s partner round and round. And yet everywhere we see dance floors...
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Ranking the English Translations of Giorgio Agamben
And it doesn’t get more relevant than detailing how problematic instances of the ‘exception’ led to the rise of the Third Reich.
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Best and Worst Things I Read in 2017
Vance’s very, very poorly written book on Appalachia would have been a better book if I’d lit on fire the second it arrived.
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Master of the Segway
What is it really, this puzzling device, the segway? You lean forward and it moves forward. But...
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The Beautiful Shirts of Jay Gatsby and Lance Armstrong
“To be honest, Oprah” he said robotically, “we sued so many people.” It is perhaps this inability to confront a reality outside of cycling that makes Armstrong the ideal cyclist.
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Watermelon on a Sunny Day
Nothing but no-names and repeats.
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GOLDFISH: A LYRIC ESSAY (WITH RANKINGS)
How many toothsome crackers are wasted each year on these doddering monkeys?
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CHEEZ-ITS: A LYRIC ESSAY (WITH RANKINGS)
The thing with Cheez-Its, you can eat too many, call your Uncle Ralph on the big white telephone, and still pick up another box at Kroger on the way home.
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The Donald Trump Readymade
Whether consciously or not, SNL’s Palin readymade was a legitimate political weapon. SNL’s Trump was not.
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The Feed Eaters
Domesticated animals eat feed. Day after day, the farmer fills the trough with the same oats, the...
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Envy the Cow Its Forgetfulness
NIETZSCHE, so many consonants! Without a familiar alphabetic pattern, one tends to be confused...
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Copies of Copies
Friends make fun of me for having a fireplace going on Netflix. And they’re right, it is a bit...
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Am I Bot or Not?
Before IBM’s Deep Blue made it cool, there was a chess-playing computer. In the late 18th century...
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