Category: Articles
The 5 Different 9/11s Part One
This past weekend marked the twentieth anniversary of the september 11th terrorist attacks. I vaguely remember being 11 in sixth grade and watching as the smoke rose into lower Manhattan’s […]
September 6 — It’s The End of The World
Before Europeans set foot in the Americas (Vikings excepted), it was a world full of diverse civilizations. The Chico Norte civilization in modern-day Peru arose about the same time as […]
The Most American Beer
Is Native American beer (tiswin) beer? By German law, beer can only consist of barley, water, hops, and yeast. There are thousands of variations on that basic recipe. The type […]
Presidential Ranking and the Politics of Memory
This past June, C-SPAN released an updated United States Presidential ranking. This was their 4th installment of the rankings. Beginning in 2000 and following each change of administration in 2009 […]
Shohei Ohtani Is Doing Something the MLB Hasn’t Seen in 100 Years
Even if you don’t care about Major League Baseball, you may want to start paying attention to the season that Shohei Ohtani is having with the Los Angeles Angels. We […]
The UFOs Might Not Be Aliens But Aliens Definitely Exist
Recently, the US Department of Defense released a report on UFO sightings. The DoD calls them “unknown aerial phenomena.” In English, that means “we saw some shit flying around, and […]
Luke and Rey Don’t Deserve Anakin’s Lightsaber
Throughout the nine main Star Wars films, Anakin Skywalker has three lightsabers. He builds his first lightsaber when he’s fourteen and still a padawan. He loses this lightsaber on Geonosis […]
Understanding Schadenfreude and When It Makes You a Bad Person
Schadenfreude is a fun word to say. I could probably spend hours simply finding new ways to pronounce it. Sha-den-froy-duh. SHA-ten-FRAU-de. It’s endless. It is also one of my favorite […]
The 5 Dumbest Things to Happen This Week in History
Human beings are dumb. They always have been and, I suspect, always will be. That means people have been committing acts of dumbassery for hundreds of thousands of years. So, […]
Red Summer: When White America Went to War With Black America
World War I ended in 1919. The War to End All Wars did no such thing. The postwar era was defined by violence, upheaval, wealth inequality, economic collapse, and basically […]