Let’s agree that April Fools’ Day has always been awful, but the age of social media has rendered it insufferable. Of the myriad nonsensical and obvious jokesthat get churned out by the amateur comedians ineverymarketing department, ever, there are but one or two gems. Parody and satire...
Economic growth should include the “bottom” 99.9%, not just the .1%, the only question being, how best to accomplish that.Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) favors giving everyone a job. Monetary Sovereignty (MS) favors giving everyone money.The five articles describe the pros and cons of each ...
One reason to read the Weekly Sift is that I do a lot of disagreeable things so that you don’t have to. This week I read the 62-pageHouse Republican Budget Alternative, which is supposed to prove that Republicans are not just the Party of No; they have ideas of their own. They do...
Keke Palmer reflects on Instagram about how she might have 'manifested' her baby boy, Leodis, after an April Fool's Day joke last year. The 'Nope' actress and her boyfriend, Darius Jackson, welcomed their little one in February.
If there’s one thing we desperately need in this country, it’s a reversal of the egalitarian sentiments that have poisoned so much public discourse. We need to encourage and acknowledge the best and the brightest. Ignorant fools should not be allowed to operate dangerous machinery or pull le...
(which is still fifty percent fiction and fifty percent misunderstanding). Then there are the everyday lies we tell ourselves out of animal ignorance, such as ‘ugly people are not nice people’ or ‘making money is a good thing’. Our instincts make liars and fools of us all. I just ...
In what I thought must be an April Fools joke, Daybreak said they were not going to do any more expansions forEverQuest II. Instead it was going to be DLC liketheRum Cellar. A rum idea if ever there was one. Likewise, thoughEverQuestwas getting a new progression server, it seemed like...
The quality of any entry in Wikipedia, for instance, is ultimately determined not by how many people work on it but by how manytalentedpeople work on it. An entry written by a single expert will be better than an entry written by a hundred fools. When you look deeply into Wikipedia, be...
fools (who were the ants) worry about the future. Fortunately, fate intervened and I got married and had a baby girl when I was only 21. I think this sobered me up by putting a bunch of responsibilities on my shoulders that I was not really ready for. At some point, my parental ...
The other night while engaging in this “practice” I had some amazing business ideas. I called my friend Elyssa the next day to share, and as I told her I looked around and saw three white cars drive past. All with 11 on the license plates. I started screaming. P-CHI ON. ...