Hubris

  • Scars

    “There is no room in this world for ‘us and them.’ This world demands an attitude of ‘us,’ all of us within one human race. It demands our ending the demonization of ‘the…

  • Point/Counterpoint

    “And you know, because you’ve been here before, in this killing field, that the fools and predators will find they, too, can be mowed down, that all their swagger and gorging was for…

  • There is Always an Answer

    “We have few opportunities to positively influence the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mass Extinction Event, and abrupt, irreversible climate change. None of these opportunities, even if pursued with rigorous passion by each of us,…

  • The Poet Tom Sturch

    “I’m preaching to myself, he would say, as if the belief that the grace of a common bread was easier for us to comprehend than the oracle of his mouth; that his humanity…

  • Welcome to The Masquerade

    “Since the isolation protocols began, I’ve baked bread loaves; I’ve done a cheesecake for a friend; I’ve made Dutch Babies when I was feeling nostalgic for my Grandmother Balk’s breakfasts; and I have…

  • Fridman Fixing Photos

    “Greta Jaruševičiūtė, of Bored Panda, calls James Fridman a ‘magic wish-granting funny photoshop genie’ who’ll ‘give you EXACTLY what you ask for but in a twisted kind of way, deliberately delivering you the…