Random Thing up My Ass du Jour

What is up with the way some people insist on viewing willingness to eat sushi as this shibboleth of sophistication? In my experience, admitting that you don’t enjoy sushi to inhabitants of a major metropolis is tantamount to declaring that you’ve just arrived from East Jesus Christ, Nebraska, you’re afraid to set foot outside your [...]

It’s Not Me, It’s You

So there’s this letter in the October Atlantic that I can only presume was published with an eye to provoking precisely the reaction I’m having right now. To wit, Are you fucking kidding me?
David Colbert of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma responds to a Cristina Nehring article on infidelity (which, alas, I didn’t read) thusly: “Nehring’s article [...]