I finished another bag of coffee, which presents a surprisingly tough philosophical dilemma. What do I do with the empty bag? Of course I should throw it away, same as I have with every other coffee bag before it. Saving it would be crazy! But. This one isn’t the same…

The January morning was cold. President Trump, soon-to-be-former President Trump huddled with his family in a tent in front of a row of monitors, watching the crowd. His crowd. They’d come when he called and they would soon lay siege to the capitol when he asked. …

Saying they should take a queue on trust and cooperation from the Republicans, Taylor Swift once said “[Democrats] need to just be like, ‘You’re a Democrat? Sick. Get in the car. We’re going to the mall.’” …

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August 29, 2022. Scrolling through our instagram feeds, we see what is unmistakably the cover of a new Taylor Swift album. “Meet me at midnight,” she says. You might read that as instruction. “Meet me,” she says, appointment-making. You’d be right, to the degree that millions of us lined up…

Something must be in the water, because wow 2021 was a great year for music. My calendar informs me it’s now 2022, but the trend seems to be continuing. I’ll put it to you this way. If you told 2017 Zach “Kendrick’s going to go 5 years before releasing another…

I knew right from the beginning what I wanted to do for my second playthrough of Disco Elysium: I wanted to be a fascist meathead. When I shared this intention with my friends, they were horrified. Why would you want to roleplay a racist thug? Especially now, at a movement…

What the game Universal Paperclips has to say about the infinite growth economy — Growing up in the Pittsburgh region, I always knew that producing stuff was good. From coal to steel and now plastics, it didn’t matter what the “stuff” was exactly, the value was in the production itself. …