It’s All for the Breast
by Alexis Sugden {read the rest}
With fewer farmhands, Michigan farmers more willing to buy worker visas
“I know they are legal,” Leitz said of his H-2A workers. “If ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) comes in at least I know I still have workers.” Thus far,…
Ghostbusters is a Surprising Antidote to Lovecraft’s Dismal Worldview
Ghostbusters is a perfectly structured film. Desire lines are clear scene by scene. Act breaks are sharp and propulsive. Every payoff is set up early in the film, including Mr. Stay-Puft. The…
Spooked! from Snap Judgement
harvesting stories from the Shadowlands
Neil deGrasse Tyson Selects the Eight Books Every Intelligent Person on the Planet Should Read
How to “glean profound insight into most of what has driven the history of the western world.”
Someone dressed as the Monopoly mascot and photobombed the Equifax senate hearing
Rich Uncle Pennybags may have stolen the show at Equifax CEO Richard Smith's Senate Finance Committee testimony. {read} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfRsXN8kUX0
Why All Writers Should Play Dungeons & Dragons
Roleplaying games, once considered nerdy, are getting popular—and for writers, readers, and storytellers, they’re full of potential. {read}
The Athletic Brassiere
Among the most important advances in sports technology, few can compete with the invention of the sports bra. Following the passage of Title IX in 1972, women’s interest in athletics…
They thought they were going to rehab. They ended up in chicken plants
McGahey had heard of Christian Alcoholics & Addicts in Recovery. People called it “the Chicken Farm,” a rural retreat where defendants stayed for a year, got addiction treatment and learned…
The Great Communicator, Vietnam Syndrome and Another Mass Atrocity
Empire equals militarism. In order to maintain an empire, a nation must make either threats of violence or violence to bear to bring outliers into the fold. Both forms of…