In the last 30 days, the town of Princeton has searched for “robot unicorn attack” on average (that is as percentage of total traffic) 25 times as much as Seattle, 30 times as much as Boston and Los Angeles, and 50 times as much as New York and Chicago. For ...

Last year, the unlikely phrase "Hegel's Bagels" appeared in this newspaper on two separate (although not unrelated) occasions: first, in the cover illustration; and second, as the title of an article. The article reported that the Princeton German Department had opened a bagel shop called "Hegel's Bagels," and ...

The Fall

“This snowfall is my final fantasy. Once
America the woman was coming on my dick,
her flag pin a pinhole to a world without strife. But then—”
he sneezes. “Let me begin again. Terrorism.
The weeping willow lowers her hair and head in sorrow.
The fireman and his wife
die ...

If you haven’t seen The Hurt Locker yet, don’t. Watch Groundhog Day instead; it’s much better, and it will also give you a far better sense of what the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are like. That’s not an original thought; soldiers at various bases in ...

Workers’ rights groups around the world celebrated an unprecedented victory last November in what had been an ongoing struggle between the workers of Honduras and Russell Athletics, the largest private employer in the country. Almost a year ago, Russell shut down a factory there to prevent workers from organizing a ...

“In our society, intimacy is strongly equated to sex,” says David Jay, founder of AVEN, creator of asexuality.org, and a self-avowed asexual.