Category: sadness
A Plague of Locusts
The absurd contempt for life expressed in the apparent lack of concern for the necessities of survival — air, water, food — by the powerful drives m...
Why I Cancelled My Newspaper Subscription
I’ve maintained a subscription to the deadtree edition of my local newspapers since I was old enough to pay my own bills. I’ve continued to subscrib...
The Case of the Wrong Way Driver
On July 26th, Diane Schuler left Sullivan County, New York, on her way home to Long Island. Around 1:30 p.m., she entered the northbound Taconic State Parkway f...
Speaking of Hate
I really hate that the rhetoric of liberty is perverted in the service of illiberal causes. And I hate this not just because of the hypocrisy of it. I hate this...
Bobby Dunbar
I’m listening again to This American Life‘s story “The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar.” The story is remarkably affecting, sad, and hard to imagi...
Lost Friends
I lost touch with my room-mate from Hampden-Sydney. He dropped out after my first semester there, and I ended up with a single for the next year. We did not kee...
Evolution in Action
This is sad, but preventable. Can you count how many ways these parents were irresponsible? Sorry about the guilt, folks, but it’s yours to bear.