Not really. I like to think that from the beginning, each decade had it’s sound. Hard to ague with that weather you were a fan or not, they had a sound that defined their 10 year span. Once 2000 hit...... it’s just been a blob of randomness.

Nah. She’s clearly commemorating the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. (Nov. 10, 1975.)

As a cerified old black lady. Yall are reaching.

Indeed. Like, years too late in this instance. Taylor Swift’s entire damn career seems to be built on diss tracks and ex-boyfriend drama. I really dislike her music but if I were a fan I’d be getting pretty tired of what appears to be the same old nonsense ad nauseam.

Some kitty litter has crystals! It all makes sense now!

I grew up in a family who believed in reincarnation, it was just accepted.

I am not someone who believes in...anything, really. But I think everyone has that one thing that makes them wonder. I have two. Both happened when I was a small child (so beginning when I was maybe 3 or 4), and both were ongoing.

Nobody should mock my new devotion to Scientology.

“The dead outnumber the living, in a ratio that could be as high as 20 to 1,” a demographer, Nathan Keyfitz, wrote in a 1991 letter to the historian Justin Kaplan. “Credible estimates of the number of people who have ever lived on the earth run from 70 billion to 100 billion.” Averaging those figures puts the total…

The Root has been a nice addition. As a white dude in his 40s, I’m finding that there’s a lot I don’t know.

Great piece, Madeleine! Very interesting to hear your thoughts on it.

Two theories: