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Five Things That Will Blow Your Mind About Living in Italy

Including good doggos and a farting Contessa When someone displeases you in Italy, you can take out a denuncia or complaint against them, and then go to court. In, like, ten years. In Calcata Vecchia, an artists’ community perched high on a rock overlooking a valley, loud, acrimonious arguments are…

Italy

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Published in Cappuccini

·Jun 27

Know Your SCOTUS: Justice Clarence Thomas Is a Threat to Women and Democracy

The truth is a damning indictment of a petty, merciless idealogue with an ax to grind against the liberals who “shamed” him. — While we were watching in abject horror this week as Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito handed down the Court’s decision on abortion — while we wept in frustration and rage, hugged each other, and spent hours on the phone commiserating — there was one Supreme Court Justice that rejoiced. …

SCOTUS

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·Jun 26

This is the Moment That Will Define Us

We rise in blood or we die in dust. We are officially at war. Pick your side. No more finger pointing. No more evisceration of feminist backlash totems like Amber Heard. No clutching our pearls and bemoaning the religious overthrow of the Supreme Court. No more hemming and hawing. …

Abortion

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·Jun 20

The Appalling Cluelessness of the Super-Rich

Rap impresario Jay-Z and influencer Kim Kardashian are just the beginning. In reality, it’s so much worse. — It is this writer’s considered opinion that the real reason socialism never gained purchase in America is because (to borrow a paraphrased quote from John Steinbeck), the poor have always felt themselves to be “temporarily embarrassed” millionaires. …

Kim Kardashian

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The Appalling Cluelessness of the Super-Rich

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·Jun 15

The Night That Changed Rome Forever

In 1958 at a restaurant in Trastevere, an impromptu striptease ruined lives. — (Warning. This article contains mild nudity.) Her name was Aiché Nanà (pronounced: Ah-ee-KAY Nah-NAH) but she was born Kiash Nanah in Lebanon to Armenian parents, a woman of almost feral charisma with tumbling black hair and flashing eyes who craved attention the way some people crave alcohol. At the age…

Italy

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·Jun 8

The U.S. Art Market has all the Charm of a Urinal Cake

I hope your floor’s clean because your jaw is about to drop on it. — I spend a lot of time thinking about things. My most recent obsession has been cosmology in general (the origin and evolution of the universe) and loop quantum gravity specifically, which makes me sound like an odious twat, but my fascination is both humble and genuine. If general relativity is…

Art

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The U.S. Art Market has all the Charm of a Urinal Cake

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·May 30

Religion is Destroying America

We are in a do-or-die situation. Non-believers must speak up now to roll back the tide of dangerous white Christian nationalism. — This article might offend you. Quite a lot, in fact. Some readers will not only cancel their subscriptions, they’ll do everything they can to cancel me. I accept the consequences of my actions, including a possibly crippling blow to this ezine that I’ve toiled so hard over for the past…

Guns

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·May 20

Running Errands in Italy: A Week of Utter Folly

I would call it “farce,” but it probably needs more cowbell. — A few years ago, while visiting my kids in Houston, I walked into a CVS drugstore on Christmas. I’d actually forgotten it was Christmas (I have an unbecoming and Grinchish aversion to the holidays), but when I beheld the woebegone faces behind the counter, I suddenly remembered. What were they…

Travel

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Running Errands in Italy: A Week of Utter Folly

May 20

As Meta As It Gets: The Writer As God

This is my creative process, and I am sharing it with you. — I would love to characterize myself as a thinker, but it’s not true. Like a hen, I brood. I brood over social injustices. I brood over gloomy prognostications about the future. …

Writing

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Published in Cappuccini

·Feb 6

Is Spotify Evil?

Or Is Joe Rogan Just A Festering Boil on the Nethercheeks of Humanity? In the event you’ve been bingeing the fourth season of Ozark this week (and yes, it is spectacular) and haven’t had time to read about the kerfuffle over at Spotify, let me fill you in on the…

Spotify

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