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Eulogizing the boombox
Boomboxes were so much more than just portable tape players with built-in speakers and a radio antenna.
Patrick Schuster’s Oakleys
By now, you’ve probably heard about the latest succes-in-a-recession media darling from Florida who tossed his fourth straight no-hitter on Monday night. But have you heard about Patrick Schuster’s new Oakley sunglasses?
A word for people you don’t know
Ta-Nehisi Coates unpacks the word ghetto, a term he says “allows you to erase individuals and create boxes.”
Where everybody majors in being offended
We now live in a nation where everybody majors in being offended. Me too, some days. It’s our national character; the Great American Petulant Pout. And it comes because we take our cues from the media of our choice, which focuses on demonizing the other side. I think I’m going to quit paying attention, and […]
A mall with a baseball field in the middle
It’s unclear whether Yankee Stadium wants to be a ballpark with killer amenities or a mall with a baseball field in the middle. The inside of the stadium is freakishly loyal to its predecessor, like twins who look identical but are actually fraternal. The differences are ornamental, and because of its classic look, the initial […]
16 million girls
Sixteen million girls are missing in China. And now we know what happened to them: They were aborted because they weren’t boys. A study published last week in the British Medical Journal, based on a survey of nearly 5 million Chinese children and teenagers, bares the gruesome numbers. Worldwide, the number of boys born per […]