Being Human

Nothing Quite Like Home
It’s almost an out-of-body experience. Those moments when you’re somewhere else, seeing something with your own eyes that matters to…
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How to Crowdsource Book-Writing Ideas
I’m going to die. I could be well over halfway to the end as I sit here and type. And…
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The Saddest Place in the World
If the pursuit of happiness is our most-important Earthly mission, my neighbors and I are doing it wrong. According to…
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To Dust We Shall Return
Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea All we do, crumbles to the ground, though…
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How to Be Loyal
I cheated on her. I did. She’s engaged to be married to someone else. But still. We have a thing,…
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The Pursuit of Happiness, Vol. 2
There is a small country in South Asia—Bhutan—where the government measures its success based on the collective happiness of its…
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Advertising and Kids
I know how to stimulate the economy. Not create job growth, necessarily. This plan would almost certainly not address the…
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The Jesuit Standoff
Pooping embarrasses me more than almost anything. You might say I suffer from a super-minor form of parcopresis. It’s not…
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An Open Letter to Shitty Husbands, Vol. 6
You think you’re being nice. But you’re not. You think you’re doing her a favor. But you’re not. You think…
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Hangovers and $4 Lobster
Because I had more fun than I usually do last night, I don’t feel amazing today. While I was being…
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