Afflictor: Thinking Rush Limbaugh’s children’s book is already having an impact.
I hate welfare moms.
But we’re on welfare, son.
- Old Print Articles: Electricity used as an anaesthetic (1910) + Boston physician thinks he can weigh souls (1907) + Guglielmo Marconi suspects Martians are sending us Morse code (1920).
- Classic Photograph: Captain Henry Wirz, Erstwhile Warden (1865).
- Featured Videos: The Carpenters pretend to be happy to see Ralph Edwards (1971) + Merv Griffin is visited by Woody Allen (1969) + Joe Pyne “welcomes” Yippie Paul Krassner (1967) + Two Faye Dunaway commercials (1960s/1980s) + Hollywood agent Sue Mengers profiled on 60 Minutes (1975) + Muhammad Ali speaks dismissively of Malcolm X right before the latter man’s murder (1965) + David Epstein explains to Keith Olbermann why Jamaica has the best sprinters + Elon Musk demonstrates gesture-based, futuristic designing + Jack Benny meets Walt Disney (1964).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: That cock-blocking lesbian did humanity a disservice + Why does this salad smell like pee? + I am pretending I lost a Halloween dare + It’s like trading recipes, except there’s a lot more penetration.
- Tyler Cowen predicts the victors in our increasingly autonomous age.
- Nicholas Carr believes paper will survive pixels.
- What’s more unfair in athletics, PEDs or genetics?
- Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation may enhance performance.
- Is lab-grown meat unethical in any way?
- Tech items that were available 30 years ago in the Sears catalog.
- Some things Jeff Bezos said while visiting the WaPo offices.
- Next-wave prosthetics have the design genius of iPods.
- The idea of the Multiverse is rooted in ancient times.
- Malcom Gladwell believes American football will become marginalized.
- Lawrence Weschler meditates on David Hockney’s use of technology.
- Smartphone ubiquity may be permanent or perhaps not.
- Selfies seem to speak poorly of us or perhaps not.
- Slate global reporter Josh Keating did an Ask Me Anything.
- Regenerative medicine is better for the creation of Organoids.
- A brief note from 1901 about a yachting trip.
- A brief note from 1911 about apes dining.
- A brief note from 1911 about roast camel.
- Afflictor Nation: Great Britain rules in August.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.