Every goddamn day: 05/12/25

    Happy Pi Day, and a special one at that. This is the day where, once in the morning and once in the evening, it will be 3/14/15 9:26:...

      The whole idea seems impossibly quaint, now.       There would be these little private rooms , these booths, scattered about in pu...

     Taking heroin feels wonderful.      "It's been described as returning to the womb, and I think there's some truth to tha...

   Nobody likes to see a business in trouble. Particularly an important American business, headquartered right here in the suburbs of Ch...

     American are a punitive bunch. We love to punish people. Nearly 3 percent of American adults are in prison, jail, probation or paro...

    One of the dozen mundane tasks that made Monday a sort of teeth-gritted, "Thirty-plus-years-of-doing-this-shit-and-here-I-am...

Matt Schipper, right, demonstrates the humane, Zen-ful Fly Swooper.      If the violence inherent in fly swatters has always bothered ...