Timothy McSweeney
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In this column, Kimberly Harrington shares updates on some of literature’s, film’s, and television’s more problematic men. Because even the fiction...
Why did the scarecrow win a prize? Because he stood alone in his field! He stood there for years, rotting, until he was forgotten. - - -I tell my k...
One celebration involves matching T-shirts and takes place in a different city every year.
Why did the scarecrow win a prize? Because he stood alone in his field! He stood there for years, rotting, until he was forgotten. - - -I tell my k...
“It’s nice not having a commute.” = Sometimes I go 72 hours without stepping foot outside. “My commute is only five steps!” = Sometimes even that...
When we're being watched, we conform. We don't speak freely or try new things. But social progress happens in the gap between what’s legal and what’s moral.
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Peter Ernst"Surveillance means society cannot experiment with new things without fear of reprisal, and that means those experiments—if found to be inoffensive or even essential to society—cannot slowly become commonplace, moral, and then legal."