(This is the Tantrum, in which Dadwagon’s writers debate one question over the course of a week. For previous Tantrums, click here.) I clocked Hanna Rosin’s Atlantic article on The End of Men, which is the subject of this week’s Tantrum, at over 8,600 words. The Constitution of these United States, including all 27 freaking Amendments, …
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This bit of smartstuff from Lev Grossman, a novelist who is also TIME’s book critic and resident nerd-blogger. He inexplicably started an additional personal blog on the side, and quickly used it to give voice to a concern I’ve been having: that writing too much, or at least in too many forums, keeps us from …
I don’t have much time to write because I am watching Spain toy with Honduras, and hoping that unlike in 1969, a Honduran loss won’t lead to military conflict this time. But I did want to, in a flush of post-Father’s Day dadpride, point out this story from the Carroll County Times-Georgian about what happened …
(Another translation from Joachim Ringelnatz’s 1931 Children-Confusion-Book; read about him here). Serious Advice for Children (Ernster Rat an Kinder) Woodchips fall when you plane Corpses float in the Seine Every boat below the deck Gets covered in a sticky dreck Beneath the mane’s greasy patina Of every lion and hyena Cling a host of critters In …
