It would be easy to mock Trump supporters as a bunch of goat-fucking hillbillies in white sheets, hence the illiteracy, but then I see my parents’ friends who voted for him (mostly upper-middle class, mostly live in New England, pretty much all have college degrees at minimum) on Facebook and no, it’s just that all…

Luckily for them, criminalizing popular, mostly harmless activities always works out well for everyone involved.

I remember watching the 2015 World Series with a buddy who’s a Mets fan, and more importantly for this story, a doctor, and when we were talking about Wright he immediately said, “Oh yeah, spinal stenosis is serious shit - things are never going to get better for him and his career is probably over soon.” You’ve got…

I love when people are SUPER into “life hacks” talk this way about books. Unless you’re talking about self-help books, which can almost always be condensed into fewer than 10 pages without losing anything, a summary or list of takeaways from a book misses the point of reading in the first place. Sure, you could read…

For me shots have always been a ceremonial thing, e.g. I’m with a bunch of friends who no longer live in the same city and someone buys a round of shots to celebrate us all being in the same place enjoying each others’ company again. But I’ve also known people who were way too into doing shots and would insist on…

“I’m not moving nothing in the garage, so I don’t want to go home.” Good god I know so many dudes who are in their office at crazy hours and act like it’s because of how much more dedicated to their jobs they are than everyone else when in reality they just fucking hate their wife and kids so much they’d rather sit in…

While some transplants to New York have a weird chip on their shoulder about other cities sucking (maybe because they’re not doing so well here and are desperately trying to convince themselves that they still want to live here?), most New Yorkers absolutely do not give a shit about any other city. The idea that…

Based on the last two months, it definitely seems like the Yankees made the right decision to fire the manager who brought them within one game of the World Series. Huge fucking improvement this year. 

Dropping off your film plastic in a designated recycling bin is definitely better than landfilling it, but the best option is to try to limit your plastic use in the first place. There’s effectively no market for recycled film plastic, so a lot of those bags that you put in recycling bins just end up being shredded,…

I don’t see how Miami FC would be better - we don’t call it football here, so the adaptation of that naming convention should be SC, not FC. 

Karl Ove Knausgaard is everything that is wrong with the literary world. His work is boring, self-obsessed, and cliched yet the gatekeepers of “literature” think his shit smells like roses. Please, let’s all continue to lament that no one reads serious literature anymore while we sniff our own farts and praise the…

Oh whoa, hot take alert, somebody is about to drop some knowledge about prison abolition on Drew’s weekly dumb jokes column. 

Oh yeah - I have a lot of “progressive” friends who have moved to Portland in the last decade because it’s so “nice” or “clean” or whatever the fuck, like it’s a utopia. I always have to hold my tongue to not be like “You like it there because there aren’t any black people! You would’ve moved to the suburbs but…

Protest flyovers are not remotely a new tradition in the Premier League. 

Fair, but I get a perverse not-quite-pleasure from seeing how many grammatical errors and incomprehensible sentences he can squeeze into a single bad, uninformed take. 

Billy is the worst writer on this site and it’s incomprehensible that he still has a job as a professional writer.

GTA IV is already extremely retro though, if unintentionally. Seriously, revisiting that game now I’m not sure if you’ll find a better time capsule of mid-aughts culture and politics, from the post-9/11 vibes, war on terror, and growing police state to Republicans in power being shockingly homophobic without suffering…

Yes, it’s almost like the jokes a professional comedian is workshopping are even less funny when filtered through the half-remembered recollections of an audience member. Also, you can think that what he is accused of is gross and ruins his appeal for you, but it’s fucking absurd to compare him to Louis C.K.

I had a boss who, aside from the typical bad boss stuff like yelling a lot, used to blame me for her mistakes. One time we had a big public-facing document to get out the door, so I take a look and (being unimpressed by the writing) ask her if she wants me to take a pass at editing it. She says no, the document I’m…

I’m also a big fan of California neo-noir, but S2 really only stuck the landing on the mood and aesthetics of the genre - its writing and characters were all over the fucking map.