• Fireland (“You want a mint?” “I’m good.” “I said do you…) “Your breath smells like the — and I do not use this word lightly — but it smells like the Holocaust.”

  “Well, I’m on this cabbage diet until I can feel comfortable riding a bus with my shirt off.”

  Sometimes I wish there were a button I could use to “favorite” Josh Allen’s entire life.

• More of the Best | MetaFilter The Best of American Crime Reporting, online, 2007–2009.

• extracts of local distance “Countless fragments of existing architectural photography are merged into multilayered shapes. The resulting collages introduce a third abstract point of view next to the original ones of architect and photographer.”
• How facts backfire — The Boston Globe “The last five decades of political science have definitively established that most modern-​​day Americans lack even a basic understanding of how their country works.”

  Is all this new research into cognitive biases and the myth of free will just laying the groundwork for some future

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• Annals of Americus | Notes from the Desk of Matthew Newton Go for the links, stay for the slow unspooling of the myth of the American Dream.
• The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows “contact high-​​five: n. an innocuous touch by someone just doing their job… a feeling of connection so stupefyingly simple that it cheapens the power of the written word, so that by the year 2025, aspiring novelists would be better off just giving people a hug.”

  Pretty great.

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