Indentured servants had goddamn contracts. That is definitionally NOT SLAVERY.

Warren Zevon, too , unfortunately.

Don't forget the unpaid internships!!!

Jezebel: more like this, please! Excellent piece here, and worth extending this platform.

Especially because anyone who got off a work call and commuted home is considered risky. Seems far fetched.

I would swear those are different people

Her claws are bothering me

The photo may be undated but it has a date in it...

The Beatles are unlistenable. Boring, tendentious lyrics, and way too self-indulgent. I can't stand that noise.

Voting hardly requires my full faculties.

No, 40 lbs for a cargo bike isn’t "give up and be a scooter" territory. My bakfiets is 95 lbs, no pedal assist or batteries, and it's not super noticeable for weight.

sic throughout...

One of the more manly things to do in a truck would be to shift gears, but that’s not even an option on most of them...

What he is, undeniably, is american.

Seriously. Open an account at a local Credit Union. Don't give your money to this bank!

I don't know. My wife doesn't open mail, so I have to locate and pay all the bills. A lot of adults in relationships have these weird blind spots.

These aren’t hobby bikes. We’re talking about delivery bikes, commuters, grocery getters, kid haulers, etc.

Exactly. It's not as though transition has any sort of obvious or definite end point. There's no teleology to it.

I like that theory! It’s like a dick-based Sokol Hoax, a sting or setup wherein if the poem is published, Nabokov knows he needs to write even worse!

Fine. Lone Ranger mask then.