Afflictor: Thinking that Lonnie and George are suddenly acting all gay just to avoid ending up on the menu at Chick-fil-A. (Image by Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez.)
- 2 Recent Movies I Liked Now on Home Video: We Need to Talk About Kevin + Chronicle.
- A few thoughts about recent examples of delusional behavior.
- Old Print Articles: Female impersonator boards ferry boat in New Orleans (1892) + Tarantula salesman conducts business (1882).
- Featured Videos: Muhammad Ali interviewed in London (1974) + Jim McKay recalling the terrorism of the Munich Games (1991) + BBC reporter James Burke experiences an Apollo spacesuit (1960s) + David Frost is besieged by Yippies (1970) + William F. Buckley was worried about the erasure of personal privacy (1968) + A satirical take on the office of tomorrow (1969) + Italian promotional trailer for Philip K. Dick’s novel Ubik + At one point, Americans were encouraged to think yachting was important (1988).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I can transform even the very basic act of taking a shit into a complicated, annoying drama + Remember how I was incredibly boring 15 years ago when I was smoking pot? + There’s an outside chance you may be tried as an accomplice.
- Pretty much no other American had a life just like Stepin Fetchit.
- Gore Vidal impeaches Nixon (1970) + and is profiled by Mike Wallace (1974).
- Elon Musk discusses the pros and cons of private sector space exploration.
- Lab-grown meat will become a reality sooner or later.
- A passage from Charles Duff’s brilliantly droll book about executions.
- The advent of 3D printers will make it difficult to prohibit anything.
- Oakland has remained politically radical in the Occupy Age.
- Computer-to-computer communication will eclipse the human kind.
- A hobo hopes to build an army of ant-like robots.
- Pandemics are more likely to start at certain American airports.
- Charles Darwin could not fathom a cruel God.
- Ray Kurzweil weighs in on the neuroscience of immortality.
- The Trolley Problem as an old-school video game.
- Neal Stephenson explains why futurists should be optimists.
- A 1994 article reminds of the Internet’s modest beginnings.
- Some people who commit crimes don’t have a criminal nature.
- A brief note from 1897 about five deserted children.
- A brief note from 1895 about a popular senorita.
- Afflictor Nation: Great Britain reigns, Queen Mum perishes.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.
Poor Orlando, however, was clearly heterosexual.