Highlights From Yet Another Week Of Afflictor

Afflictor: Thinking now that the New York Times has published Vladmimir Putin, other dictators who commit atrocities may finally get a chance.

Afflictor: Thinking now that the New York Times has published peace activist Vladimir Putin, other dictators may get bylines at the Gray Lady.

I am going to be writing for the Times about food, theater and parenting.

What about me? I can write for the Times about food, theater and parenting. I have experience in all three.

You know what tastes like chickens? My enemies.

You know what tastes like chicken? My enemies.

The scene in which Hamlet talked to Yorick's skull was moving.

It’s very moving when Hamlet talks to Yorick’s skull.

Of the dozen of children I fathered, only one is known to have stomped a man to death.

Of the 43 children I fathered, only one has been convicted in the vicious gang murder of a Somali youth.

You're hired.

You’re hired.

  • David Epstein, author of the Sports Gene, did an Ask Me Anything.