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Life Lessons
This Is Not Actually An Endorsement Of Ditching Your Childhood Friends
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Felix Kent
January 28, 2022
Life Lessons
How I Got Smart
311
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Amy Schneider
December 17, 2021
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Life's Rich Pageant
Can Andy Corren Do My Obit When The Time Comes?
64
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Ray Ratto
December 16, 2021
Racing
The Lottery In Secaucus
28
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Felix Kent
December 7, 2021
Elder Wisdom
Giving Out Big Candy Bars On Halloween Was Worth The Money
289
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Dan McQuade
November 1, 2021
Running Towards Nothing
175
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Nicholas Russell
October 27, 2021
Elder Wisdom
Farewell To A Man’s Prose
128
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Giri Nathan
October 1, 2021
Media Meltdowns
Either Wirecutter Or I Are Doing Toilet Brush Ownership EXTREMELY Wrong
259
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Albert Burneko
August 12, 2021
Animals
If You Really Want A Dog, You Can Get A Damn Dog
240
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Tom Ley
July 20, 2021
Overexplained Lists
Worst Places To Get A Sunburn, Ranked
242
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Albert Burneko
July 4, 2021
Elder Wisdom
Lemme Explain The Sunscreen
174
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Drew Magary
June 29, 2021
NBA
A Grand Unified Theory For Achieving Total Basketball Enlightenment
66
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Jeremy Gordon
June 22, 2021
Elder Wisdom
The Dream Is To Be A Boring Asshole
244
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Drew Magary
June 11, 2021
Chefector
It Is Not Yet Tomato Time, Blasphemers
234
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Albert Burneko
June 7, 2021
Elder Wisdom
How Does Coachspeak Work?
90
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Felix Kent
June 4, 2021
Life Lessons
I Think I’m Done With T-Shirts
371
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Drew Magary
June 4, 2021
Elder Wisdom
Business Travel Is Meditation
256
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Drew Magary
May 13, 2021
Elder Wisdom
A Taxonomy Of LOLs
191
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Drew Magary
May 12, 2021
Life Lessons
It Never Ends Like It Should
165
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Craig Fehrman
April 12, 2021
Elder Wisdom
Old Things Are Old! That Includes You!
319
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Drew Magary
March 24, 2021
Elder Wisdom
Never Stop Singing
229
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Drew Magary
March 18, 2021
Life Lessons
You Must Have One Trick For The Baby
223
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Chris Thompson
March 15, 2021
Media Meltdowns
Who Can Guess What Jeffrey Toobin Did Wrong? (Not So Fast, Malcolm Gladwell)
268
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Albert Burneko
December 15, 2020
Elder Wisdom
Let’s Just Do It And Be Legends. Let’s Make Pasta.
161
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Drew Magary
October 22, 2020
NBA
The Case For Elgin Baylor High School
46
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Dave McKenna
October 13, 2020
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