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While my mathematically inclined readers scramble to figure out just how fast I was going, I should point out that during my sadly-vanished adolescence, the only car I ever drove was a sturdy 1989 Volvo station wagon. The wagon was a lumbering maroon beast, well-equipped to take out a panzer on a muddy Belgian field, but utterly incapable of breaking the 70 m.p.h. barrier without shuddering and shedding loose parts across Connecticut’s crowded highways. On this fateful day, however, I was driving my friend Sarah’s spanking new Mercedes-Benz, in which...
Embedded messages about race and gender are arguably even more damaging. Harvard Medical School professor Carol Newberger argues in Monopoly that Beauty and the Beast implicitly encourages young girls to stay in abusive relationships. With the title characters’ relationship at times resembling domestic violence—she is isolated from her family and imprisoned—the film suggests to viewers that it is the job of the abused to, in Newberger’s words, “socialize and excuse” the abuser...
...anniversary of Winona Ryder’s arrest in the Hollywood Saks Fifth Avenue department store. When one of the most beautiful and talented women in the world (in my humble opinion) can fall from grace so swiftly and publicly, we need to reflect on the nature of the beast we call “American Culture.” We’ve forgotten these past ninety days that our problems are not soley rooted in some diabolical Axis. Winning a war half a world away hasn’t solved the personal crisis of one troubled American...
...POSTURE The classic images of T. rex showed him standing upright, with tail near the ground for stability. The correct posture is shown in this skeleton from Chicago's Field Museum: the beast balanced its weight over its hips like a seesaw...
...inadvertently urged me to distill my nonsense into insane ramblings. That brings me to today. As I look back upon the last 20 years of my life, I see a boy maturing into a distinguished young man. I am standing next to him, watching with freakish minority man-beast eyes...