Shame: A Party Game
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
– Genesis 3:7 (New Internatio
6 Ways to Live Like There’s No Tomorrow (And Loathe Every Second of It)
I am putting the finishing touches on this article at 5 pm EST on a Friday afternoon. It’s officially the weekend, and that can only mean one thing: a heightened risk of sudden
And John Adams Wrote …
In March of this year, while the Republican Primary was still ongoing, Mitt Romney gave a speech condemning Donald Trump and pleading with his party’s voters to select essentia
Misery Movies: Episode 1 – Careful
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This is the debut episode of our new Misery Tourism podcast, Misery Movies, a round-table discussion with a focus on films about human suffering. Each episode will feature a deep
The Comedy Beyond Hope
With apologies to Dante Alighieri, the saints, the penitent, and all of the damned.
I
Dante Dreams of a Return to Hell
Somewhere in his home in Florence there is a scrap of
Musings of a Clinically Depressed Predictive Text Emulator
Depression is programming. That’s what we mean when we say we suffer from learned helplessness or that we struggle with self-destructive behaviors: our lives have become trappe
Suicides of Men I Never Knew
1
Memories of an 84 Year Old Co-Worker
They were together 18 years, and never married.
One night, after they had both been drinking, they had a fight.
He told her he was goin
Four Terrible New Psychological States That I Discovered While Watching the First Presidential Debate
Last night Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump debated for the first time. It was apparently the most widely watched debate in the history of American presidential politics. It wa
Traumatic Brain Injury
for Keith Lamont Scott & Brentley Vinson
after the fall
he sometimes sees things
that are not there.
the book becomes a gun;
the gun becomes a book.
he cannot distingui
Storm Roof
these boys are all the same: the bowl cut the soft chin the skinny arms under the thrift shop jacket the aspergers gaze (not quite at the camera, not quite at you) in the one pho