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The Princesses and the Peas. Even on our best days we encounter annoyances, dumb little things that threaten to send us into a blind rage. A pebble in the…

Stars Going Supernova. Even the stars in the sky flame out. They say the 50s are the new 30s, but in our 30s we could sleep and injuries still healed. In our…

Serving Size Equals None. The ‘80s represented a magical confluence of microwave cookery and our own voracious adolescences. Have you ever eaten a Subway 6”…

The Unhelpful Remembance of Selves Past. We always say, “Comparison is the theft of joy.” Actually, apparently, Teddy Roosevelt said it first. He also famously…

The Quadrennial Performance Review. The corporate culture here at the Revolting podcast is sorely lacking. Because we fired everyone in HR (for obvious…

We’re Not Starting a Cult, But If We Were Starting a Cult. Humans will believe just about anything, which makes them ripe for recruitment by people who would…

TV Had Rotted Our Minds Long Before the Internet Came Along. You must see that the Internet is just the Choose Your Own Adventure version of television, and…

A Participation Trophy for Your Trouble. It’s award season, because it’s never not award season when people who already make a lot of money and are crazy…

Never Put the Shovel Away. Robot made a huge mistake last week. He put one of his snow shovels away in the shed. That caused it to snow this week. OK. OK.…

Nature, Nurture, Geography, Chemistry, Luck. We are all bags of DNA and chemicals, raised in petri dishes, by decaying life forms in urban and suburban and…