It is only sort of true to say that you know what you’re going to get when Donald Trump sits for a television interview. It is true in the sense that, after a decade spent alternately threatening and occupying the White House, everyone knows how he is going to act. There is some more uncertainty … Read more
If the play-in tournament is good for anything, it’s throwing an annual spotlight on some of the NBA’s most stuck-in-the-mud franchises. Whereas 9- and 10-seeds used to be able to slink into the offseason in relative anonymity, they are now dragged into the light for one more nationally televised, win-or-go-home game that is sure to … Read more
The summer after I got married, one of my bosses bit me on the arm. I had a lot of jobs that summer, and a lot of bosses; at the time, I was recreating the sort of interchangeable, poorly paid jobs I’d had throughout my twenties in exhausting freelanced aggregate. The boss that bit me … Read more