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I was trying to sleep, when another explosion just went off. This is no exaggeration...
In those days, when the heat of the Kingdom of Doomerica had grown so oppressive that even the ravens flew sideways, the Grandmother and Baba Yaga packed their things and went to the Pacific Northwest.
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“The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters” by Francisco Goya, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21982951.
I had no intention of writing a third installment. The first two essays examined the institutional cost and...
Sappho and Alcaeus (1881), oil on canvas by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) Image credit: Walters Art Museum, public domain (source: Wikimedia Commons).
For decades, The New York Times’ obituary page had a standard euphemism for what a ma...
Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Parable of the Blind (1568); Public Domain.
The word itself deserves resurrection. Poppycock began as a Dutch expression for soft dung, then passed through Victorian hands and emerged oddly civilized: a way t...
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