The United States "liberated" Guam and the Marianas Islands from 1898 during the Spanish-American War. As is usually the case with American Liberation, this meant further colonization, conversion into military… Read the rest of the article: Inside the effort to save an indigenous Pacific Island language that the US tried to destroy

I'm gonna need some pepto bismol to cure the headache that I have from trying to think about this logic. Medical experts at the White House have to patiently explain… Read the rest of the article: Trump suggested using the flu vaccine to cure coronavirus

Back in August 2019, a female komodo dragon named Charlie gave birth to three little dragons at the Chattanooga Zoo. The zookeepers had previously tried to hook her up with… Read the rest of the article: Female komodo dragons don't need no man to make more dragons

Woody Guthrie originally wrote "This Land Is Your Land" as a kind of screed against the exploitations of private property ownership. When he submitted the song for copyright, Guthrie allegedly… Read the rest of the article: A federal judge declared that a famous song about public property is still private property

The lucky apes — Ganyeka, Yakini and Motaba — currently live at the Werribee Open Range Zoo in Melbourne, Australia. According to PRI, one of the zookeepers discovered that the… Read the rest of the article: Michael Bublé performed a private concert of Christmas songs for a trio of gorillas

I need a theory of semantics that accounts for this pic.twitter.com/PQjKV0bSSO — Joshua Raclaw (@joshraclaw) February 28, 2020 Ignore the fact that only 9 percent of the items on the… Read the rest of the article: How much does it cost for an order of fish and chips if you don't get the fish and you hold the chips?

I've been using iTunes Match since the service launched in 2011, and it's been nothing but great until now. At the time, I had a personal laptop and a work… Read the rest of the article: Apple deleted files that I owned without telling me. It was inevitable, but I'm still pissed.

At least some things in the world are still adorable. From RTÉ: The Kelly's have four boys who are just one day shy of their fifth birthday. Now they have… Read the rest of the article: Quadruplet human kids get quadruplet lamb kids for their birthday

The Trump administration is reportedly considering the possibility of re-implementing the Defense Production Act. Originally  enacted during the Korean War, the Act essentially empowers the President to control the means… Read the rest of the article: Trump administration considers a centrally planned economy to deal with coronavirus

The White House is now insisting that all scientific and government-health related communication about the cdc be routed through the Trump administration before going public. And that person in charge… Read the rest of the article: Man who let major HIV outbreak happen put in charge of censoring coronavirus for the White House

In January of 2018, I was hired by the Civic Ensemble of Ithaca, New York to take part in a fascinating playwriting opportunity. The company had started a ReEntry Theatre… Read the rest of the article: A new play lets formerly incarcerated people tell their stories. Meanwhile, prisons are still banning books.

Today on "Every Single Expectation of Gradual Fascist Action Under the Trump Administration Has Continued Coming True:" The Department of Justice today announced the creation of a section dedicated to… Read the rest of the article: The US Department of Justice has officially begun to un-naturalize citizens

Motherboard has an interesting new piece about musical copyright law, and the fact that there are only so many musical sequences using half-step frequencies possible. What happens when they're all… Read the rest of the article: A pair of musicians recorded every possible MIDI melody just to get around copyright law

From the American Independent: A record number of Kentucky residents are registered to vote as of Jan. 31, Secretary of State Michael Adams (R) announced on Tuesday. More than 3.4 million Kentuckians… Read the rest of the article: Registered voters in Kentucky have reached an all-time high ahead of Mitch McConnell's re-election

In April 2019, the Hard Times (my personal favorite satire site) posted a piece titled, "I Was Brainwashed by the Liberal Media. Then I Saw a Video of a Man… Read the rest of the article: Marco Rubio's recent rant on socialism accidentally proved Marx right

Lawyers have their legalese. Academics have their own intra-academialogical post-linguistic theories. And it was only before the MBAs joined the fray with their own self-important syntax. If you've ever been… Read the rest of the article: What is "garbage language" and why is it so hard to avoid using?

Back in November, I shared a piece about the "Real Media Salaries Spreadsheet" that was started by one of my colleagues and publicized the incomes of more than a thousand… Read the rest of the article: What we talk about when we don't talk about our salaries

I was watching "Love Island" live on ITV2 the other day (don't judge) when this bizarre commercial flashed across the screen. I live in the States, so I don't usually… Read the rest of the article: I'm pretty sure this British cell phone commercial is actually an invasion of pricks

Baby Yoda brought the internet together, its adorableness somehow overpowering the divisive animosity that has otherwise ruled over this pre-post-apocalyptic era. And now the Army's branded the Child onto the… Read the rest of the article: Baby Yoda has finally jumped the s̶h̶a̶r̶k̶ tank, thanks to the U.S. Army

I'm a big fan of Spotify's Daily Drive playlist, which is basically just Algorithmic Radio that delivers a custom mix of news and music based on my listening habits. That's… Read the rest of the article: How coronavirus impacts climate change and the US housing market