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[ the fine print is our tell ]
Have you ever asked yourself 1 what, exactly, is the purpose of fine print? Don’t bother, I already did and I can explain. Please, bear with me. Fine print is the nefarious handiwork of bamboozlers and hoodwinkers and goes by many names: small print, disclaimer, micetype, flimflam. Its sole purpose is deception. What the plainly…
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[ asleep at the wheel ]
You, being a discerning connoisseur of high culture, won’t find this surprising, but it came as news to me: the whirly girl mysteriously slipped into autopilot somewhere along the way. It became the Tesla of the Internet, home of a self-driving, unsupervised disaster. The question is, when? Well, I don’t know; I wasn’t paying attention.…
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[ how to prepare for poorness ]
With wealth distribution so completely out of whack, an instruction manual seems in order for the 90% of us dwelling at the low end of the scale. For starters, poverty is nothing to be afraid of. Like most worries, the perception is worse than the reality. How do I know? I’m poor. I wasn’t always,…
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[ let’s have words ]
Captivating conversation is disappearing almost as rapidly as glaciers and ice shelves. The culprit, as always, is the hot air created by humans — mostly in the form of inflammatory belligerence. Militance isn’t quiet. Nor is it chill. You’ve heard of the Algonquin Round Table, right? They were a gang of smarty pants sophisticates back…