This week, it was revealed that Sen. Ted Cruz wanted to ban didldos. Other candidates had different plans.
Bernie Sanders held a rally to break up Big Dildo.
10 inches is too big to fail.
Until the voice of the people is heard, we’ll fist instead.
Oh good, I can fit both hands.
- Gay Talese profiles a motel-owning voyeur–and reveals his own poor behavior.
- Douglas Coupland says there’s no escaping the future, which is already here.
- Steven Levy asks Steve Case why more information hasn’t made us smarter.
- The “fuerdai,” or super-rich Chinese kids, have transformed Vancouver.
- Wolfgang Streeck believes the sound you’re hear is capitalism’s death rattle.
- Alec Ross explains how not to fall behind in the new economy, but many will.
- The New Statesman compares driverless cars to jetpacks–not a fair analogy.
- Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking want to send probes to Alpha Centauri.
- Milner believes an interconnected “global brain” will emerge.
- The 1980s teen computer hackers were cultural descendants of phone phreaks.
- The Village Voice republished Nat Hentoff’s great 1980 profile of Merle Haggard.
- Johann Hari discusses the maddening War on Drugs, which is rooted in racism.
- Lukasz Kamienski recalls Vietnam as the “first pharmacological war.”
- Taffy Brodesser-Akner profiles Bill May, legendary male synchronized swimmer.
- The Tampa Bay Rays are experimenting with Virtual Reality batting practice.
- Old Print Article: The Collyer Brothers Are “Buried.” (1947)
- A brief note from 1922 about a Parisian drug mule.
- A brief note from 1926 about a racehorse named “Little Asbestos.”
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.