【Anissa Kate the Widow XXX】
Back Away Slowly
Best of 2015
We’re away until January 4, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2015. Please enjoy, and have a happy New Year!
A woman diagnosed as suffering from hilarious mania. Color lithograph, 1892. Image via Wellcome
Contrary to popular wisdom, in my experience many of the best comebacks are not cutting. L’esprit d’escalier is all well and good, but take it from me, zingers aren’t what they’re cracked up to be: when you grow up in a family that fights almost exclusively below the belt, you learn to wound early, and also that the act of attacking leaves you feeling bad, not triumphant. I’ll never forget being snapped at by an angry customer in a deli as a small child. “Ignore her, Sades,” my dad said loudly. “She’s an unhappy, lonely person with no one in her life who cares about her.” I’ve forgotten her expression of shocked misery; I know that only from my dad’s rueful telling. Read More >>
Search
Categories
Latest Posts
Inside the Murky Process of Getting Games on Steam
2025-06-26 03:03The Morning News Roundup for February 14, 2014
2025-06-26 03:02Nastia Denisova’s Window on the World
2025-06-26 02:11No Time for a Negative Peace
2025-06-26 01:50Popular Posts
Your 'wrong person' texts may be linked to Myanmar warlord
2025-06-26 03:58Morning Roundup for January 29, 2014
2025-06-26 03:34Lend Me an Ear by J. Mae Barizo
2025-06-26 03:30River of Fundament by Andy Battaglia
2025-06-26 03:28Amazon Pet Day: All the best deals
2025-06-26 02:28Featured Posts
Amazon Prime Grubhub deal: Save $10 off orders of $20 or more
2025-06-26 04:11Common Language by Sadie Stein
2025-06-26 03:14On Russell Hoban’s “Turtle Diary”
2025-06-26 02:55SpaceX's Starlink satellite launch in pictures
2025-06-26 02:14Popular Articles
Best Apple deal: Save $19 on AirTag 4
2025-06-26 04:34Sadie Stein Reflects on Robert Burns’s Poem “Address to a Haggis”
2025-06-26 03:44The Morning Roundup for January 24, 2014
2025-06-26 03:11Like the Cat That Got the Cream
2025-06-26 02:39Bargaining For the Common Good
2025-06-26 02:04Newsletter
Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest updates.
Comments (6369)
Expressing Aspiration Information Network
Bargaining For the Common Good
2025-06-26 04:17Wisdom Convergence Information Network
The Patron Saint of Writers and Journalists by Dan Piepenbring
2025-06-26 03:38Prospect Information Network
Sadie Stein on Disney’s 1935 Silly Symphony “The Cookie Carnival”
2025-06-26 03:16Dream Information Network
The Morning News Roundup for February 7, 2014
2025-06-26 03:02Highlight Information Network
Your 'wrong person' texts may be linked to Myanmar warlord
2025-06-26 02:00