Up until the mid-eighties, there was always a shared assumption that the Right controlled the currency of outrage; part of what made conservatives conservative was their discomfort with profanity and...
The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was made precisely for me.
Tall people are naturally confident. History has proven this - Alexander the Great, Wilt Chamberlain, Gisele.
Nothing is completely authentic. Even the guys who kill themselves are partially acting.
Klosterman’s Razor: the philosophical belief that the best hypothesis is the one that reflexively accepts its potential wrongness to begin with. _____________________________
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and O. J. Simpson have a lot in common. We don’t normally lump them together, because certain key contrasts are tricky — for example, one man is a Muslim intellectual and the other...
His separation from the rest of society is beyond vast. But we are not working within the parameters of reality; we are working within the parameters of televised sport. And that’s a critical differen...
Here is the easiest way to explain the genius of Johnny Cash: Singing from the perspective of a convicted muderer in the song Folsom Prison Blues,: Cash is struck by pangs of regret when he sits in hi...
First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.
Everyone who loves pro basketball assumes it's a little fixed. We all think the annual draft lottery is probably rigged, we all accept that the league aggressively wants big market teams to advance de...
Booze is the greatest of all equalizers. Rich drunks and poor drunks both pass out the same way.
Being a sexual icon is sort of like being the front man for an Orange County punk band: As soon as you can explain why you're necessary, you're over.
An author I know once explained why writing became so much more difficult in the twenty-first century: The biggest problem in my life, he said, is that my work machine is also my pornography delivery...
What is going to happen in the course of my day that will be an improvement over lying on something very soft, underneath something very warm, wearing only underwear, doing absolutely nothing, all by...
No woman will ever satisfy me. I know that now, and I would never try to deny it. But this is actually okay, because I will never satisfy a woman, either. Should I be writing such thoughts? Perhaps no...
If someone publishes an essay, or tells a joke, or performs a play that forwards a problematic idea the U.S. government generally wouldn't try to stop that person from doing so. Even if they could. If...
I suppose we'll never know what really happened in that room, though he did tell police, I did it because I'm a dirty dog. This is not a very convincing alibi. He may as well have said, I got 99 probl...
Every time I learn the truth about something, I’m disappointed
During the 1970s (and particularly because of Vietnam), it slowly became standard for absolutely everyone to go to college, particularly if they had no desire to get a real job. One of the results was...
Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that feeling for real. They want men to adore them like Llo...