Surprise, we’re not so different. — He stopped watching She-Ra when he was a kid. Too many boys made fun of him. When he turned six, his parents enrolled him in Taekwondo to tough him up. His instructor called him dough boy for weeks, just to haze him. When he was ten, his mom caught him…

Stop perpetuating this myth. — My parents thought I was ugly. Actually, at first they thought I was worth entering in a slew of baby pageants. Apparently I won a bunch of them, and it was all downhill from there for a very, very long time. My dad made fun of me. My mom put…

It’s the perfect word for the 2020s — My four-year-old just started playing a new game. It’s called extinction. She pretends to be an asteroid that smashes into the planet, and then she makes us pretend to be dinosaurs. We have to lie down and die. Then she describes the ash covering our bodies. “Dust and ash are…

That’s a good thing. — The FBI finally raided Trump’s beloved Mar-a-Lago. I almost don’t care. Sure, my lack of emotion surprises me. I thought I’d feel the slightest sense of vindication. In truth, we’re crossing into an era where “I told you so” and being proven “right” really doesn’t matter anymore, because the stakes…

They’re not — I’m just going to say it. Dan Bilzerian is not a genius. In fact, I didn’t even know who he was until I stumbled across some articles and tweets describing him as one, praising the toxic lifestyle he promotes on Instagram and his ability to market it. …

Everyone should know why. — It’s getting pretty bad. Schools are resorting to all kinds of last ditch measures. They’re planning to hold classes three or four days a week. They’re hiring teachers from outside the country. They’re recruiting military vets. They’re letting college students with no training into the classroom. They’re not going to…

Our attitude poses the greatest threat. — It’s been a bad week. First, we traveled across the country to see family. It was stressful as hell. They didn’t exactly follow our indoor masking rules. There were times we had to shoo them outside to the patio. When they were off on their own, they ate inside restaurants…

We police everything but speech. — Alex Jones did so much more than start a conspiracy theory about the Sandy Hook shooting, and we need to talk about it. In case you haven’t heard, his lawyers accidentally sent a copy of his phone records to the prosecution in a civil suit, where he might wind up…

Monkeypox could be worse than Covid — Countries are reporting their first monkeypox deaths. It’s consistent with a virus that has a 3–6 percent mortality rate. Again, like other viruses, it takes anywhere from a few days to a few weeks to die. We’ve been a little impatient. Hollywood has poisoned our minds to think a virus…