AliExpress: The New Amazon? Or, Close, But No Cigar?
oth Ali and Amazon are sticking around for the near future, if not way longer. But they will get some new competititors. In Korea, for example, competitor Coupang just went…
Generational Wars Serve No One
In the end, there is only one winner in a generation war, and it’s not millennials or boomers or Gen Z—it’s capitalism. These essentialized, whitewashed stereotypes impede the intergenerational organizing…
Hannah Gadsby on the “Comfort Cocoon” She Calls Her Clothes
The comedian and writer decided to drastically minimize her wardrobe “because my sense of self is not defined by how the world sees me, it is defined by how I…
An Interview With the Guy Who Yells “Mortal Kombat” in the Theme for Mortal Kombat
Yeah, we did it in the downtown Wall Street area. We went down there and started getting directions from this guy. And he started placing us in groups and saying,…
Plan Exclusion by J. Bradley
The magician died before he could put me back together again and my health insurance wouldn’t cover “acts of god” (their words).
DMX was a Gen X icon who gave Black men like me a stronger voice
If Jean Michel-Basquiat poured his pain onto the literal canvas of the masterpieces that he created (and sometimes destroyed) during his brief career, DMX turned his personal battles with alcohol…
DMX Reigns as the Dark Prince of Hip-Hop
Late Tuesday night, on the way back from watching The Sixth Sense with friends and a stop at a karaoke bar on Sunset Boulevard, he was driving down Santa Monica…
I Farted, It tickled
my butt cheeks jiggled
Fermi paradox
The Fermi paradox, named after Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi, is the apparent contradiction between the lack of evidence for extraterrestrial civilizations and various high estimates for their probability (such as…
If you don’t clean his garbage
he'll make you live in it