Afflictor: Finally able to identify America’s most dangerous enemy.
No, not that guy.
He’s terrible, but not him.
Getting warmer.
There…that’s him!
- Old Print Articles: Anecdote from Texas Ranger John Coffee Hays (1848) + Drunken elephant fights killer python (1897).
- Classic Photograph: Tad Lincoln, the Decade Before His Death (1860s).
- Featured Videos: Lotte Lenya revisits Brecht-Weill (1962) + William Shockley discusses his life prior to ruining his reputation (1969) + Merv Griffin is visited by Jayne Mansfield (1966) and Steve Wozniak (1984) + Christina Crawford tells an inconvenient truth (1978) + Tethered flying bots can spy on you + You can create augmented-reality scenes on train windows.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: You can get some great deals on Black Friday + Mother’s Day makes me sentimental–and very moist + It has never even occurred to me that maybe I should stop gambling.
- Bob Ingersoll, now forgotten, was a famed 19th-century agnostic.
- You can love science without hating philosophy.
- Pizza delivery guy does Ask Me Anything on Reddit.
- Flight attendant does Ask Me Anything on Reddit.
- Ann Romney accepted a reality that wasn’t yet real.
- The first person to live to 150 has likely already been born.
- Ben Schott writes of a Jazz Age pyramid scheme.
- Tom Wolfe also made his name on the West Coast.
- Big-box stores can no longer control their customers.
- An argument against making cities really smart and quantified.
- The Digital Age has changed process, changed outcomes.
- James Dyson refuses to stop improving vacuum cleaners.
- You do not want to sit next to writer AL Kennedy on an airplane.
- A brief note from 1899 about a baptism.
- A brief note from 1896 about an oral fixation.
- Afflictor Nation: Great Britain rules in November.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.