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There’s a reason I don’t read newspaper commentary very often, and it isn’t because newsprint smudges my fingers. No, most analytical articles oversimplify and make half-blind conclusions. Sports writing is the most guilty of this - think of all the articles that present a statistic (e.g. UNC is 25-1 in NCAA games [...]

Thanks to Netflix (the greatest thing in film since technicolor), I watched Into Great Silence, an experience of the Grande Chartreuse Carthusian monastery, an austere order pitched in the French Alps that happens to make delicious liqueur. It’s so good (and chromatically distinctive) that the grassy yellow elixir inspired a crayon. You [...]

This t-shirt found its way onto Engrish recently. While it’s not on the order of hilarity of other translation mishaps, it is by far the most profound and provocative example of Engrish I’ve ever seen. Another instance of Eastern culture confronting and confounding the West, this shirt directly disdains the American Dream of [...]