In California, Waymo has recently been given a permit to test autonomous cars without a backup driver, but obviously not including riders.

That’s also what “pizzagate” was about (mysteriously not covered by the media)...

Whatever you say, Wilbur.

Michael Esperanza has lately been receiving attention for his idyllic paintings...

The EcoSport only has enough room for ennui.

Both MB and BMW were very systematic German when it came to naming and numbering

You never have a clue what people are going through.

This is amazingly good. A compelling call for decency.

If you ever find yourself responsible for wiping someone else’s bottom, over is the way to go.

There’s not much more to say than that. “I’ll demonstrate my adequacy by mocking what other people value.”

What’s in it for me? sounds like a shaky philosophy for being an adequate man.

Interesting essay! I wish it had taken a dive beneath the discussion of rich and famous men who cry in public, to get at the experiences of guys going through their everyday lives and sometimes crying. I think there’s only so much you can learn by observing performers who are probably constantly aware they’re under…

I can see that, but the differences are what strike me first. Someone described as a Jezebel is choosing to flout social rules and morals. A beta male is typically viewed as weak and subordinate, through no choice of his own—it’s just part of the way he is (at least, from how I’ve heard the term used). If there were…

Too much like Chicken Soup for the Male Soul. Not that Beta Male sounds as if it would be better...

Like whiplash. If “Beta Male” wants to dive beneath the stereotypes of maleness, embracing one of them is a poor way to start.

I suppose it’s a combination of culture/society and language, but in general we don’t have good ways of talking about people that things happen to, in contrast to people who do things. People who commit crimes, for example: murderers, rapists, thieves, and so forth. But people who are subject to those crimes?