ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles Within the first few weeks after I’d moved to Los Angeles, I was sitting outside at a coffee shop on Wilshire and Western, and an
Why is it so pleasurable when an organization like BuzzFeed gets blasted for plagiarism? The website’s Viral News editor, Benny Johnson, is being investigated on plagiarism charges as vigilant Twitter
ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles I don’t know about the actual laws on the books, but supposedly it’s forbidden to take a walk on the 405 freeway. Yet someone had
MICHAEL J BLAIR Perthshire, Scotland (MJ Blair has been reporting on Scotland’s campaign for independence: see his early works here, here, and here) This is a big year for Scotland.
JOHN BENNETT (originally sent out to Bennett’s email list — sign up below for more like this) The hero sets
[editor’s note: no offense is meant toward Rosie O’Donnell. Her name was chosen partly on whim (why do writers write
I won’t tell you which private security firm the man with a limp was from, as I am not one
Who says billionaires don’t meet in smoky rooms and hammer out national policy? Giambattista Vico, the great philosopher for those
JOHN BENNETT (originally sent out to Bennett’s email list — sign up below for more like it) I was about