Category Archives: Humor

Deaths of Distant Friends (or, John Updike Fucking Rocks)

Posted on August 29, 2016 by Kurt Baumeister

Kurt Baumeister and John Updike met once upon a time. The event probably wasn’t memorable for Updike, but it was for Baumeister. Continue reading →

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Found in Translation (50 Things You Don’t Mean and What You Really Do)

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Kurt Baumeister

You said it but you absolutely don’t mean it. Continue reading →

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF MY EXPERIENCES IN THE PUBLIC RESTROOMS OF NORTH CAROLINA

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Lawrence Benner

During the Great North American Blizzard of 1996, while I was stranded for several days in the Greyhound Bus Terminal in Charlotte, I masturbated out of boredom to an L.L. Bean catalogue. Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, Politics | Tagged bats, civil rights, Ed Gein, Governor Pat McCrory, L.L. Bean, North Carolina, public restrooms, Tarheel, transgender | Leave a comment

Why America Should Ban Elections

Posted on April 19, 2016 by Justin Slaughter

“As long as the Establishment holds, the spectacle’s too much fun to look away, right? Well, there are times, like Trump 2016, when we should look away. We must permanently sever the circus spectacle from democracy.” Continue reading →