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Bedbugs are creatures straight from hell. Not because they’re particularly dangerous, but because of what they do to your life. They turn your bedroom into a place you dread entering, rob you of your sleep, and make you question every little sensation on your skin. Getting rid of them can be an expensive, exhausting nightmare that can drag on for months.
The worst part? You can do absolutely nothing wrong and still end up with them.
Imagine sitting across from one of history’s most notorious mass murderers, watching him shuffle slowly toward you, physically diminished but still mentally sharp enough to defend his legacy.
That’s exactly what journalist Nate Thayer did when he interviewed Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge, the man behind one of the bloodiest regimes of the 20th century. What’s truly wild is Pol Pot, even after overseeing the deaths of somewhere between 1.5 to 3 million people, wasn’t seeking redemption. He wasn’t even looking to explain his actions. He was there to *defend* them.
For generations, Americans believed in a simple promise.
Work hard. Get an education. Find a decent job. Buy a house. Raise a family. And if you make the right decisions, your children will have a better life than you did.
That was the American Dream.
There’s a certain fantasy floating around among frustrated would-be homeowners: eventually, something has to break.
Home prices can’t keep climbing while ordinary people become less and less able to afford them. At some point sellers will run out of buyers, prices will collapse, and everyone who patiently waited on the sidelines will finally swoop in and buy a house at a reasonable price.
It’s an understandable theory.
There are few corners of sexuality more misunderstood than financial domination. To most people, the idea sounds absurd: a man willingly hands over his hard earned money to a woman who may barely speak to him, may never touch him, and may disappear after a single interaction. Sometimes we are talking about hundreds of dollars. Sometimes thousands. Sometimes life changing amounts of wealth.
It’s one of the hardest ideas to wrap your head around: a criminal defense lawyer defending someone they know is guilty.
To most people, that feels like helping someone get away with a crime. Immoral. Twisted. Wrong.
But here’s the uncomfortable truth—defending guilty clients isn’t just legally allowed, it’s
For a brief period in the 2000s, pickup artists seemed to be everywhere.
They wore flashy clothes, used absurd nicknames and spoke about dating as if it were a military operation. Women were “targets.” Conversations were “sets.” Signs of attraction were “indicators of interest.” A successful phone-number exchange was a “close.”
There was a time when going to Pizza Hut actually felt like going somewhere.
You piled into the family car and drove to that unmistakable building with the giant red roof. Inside, it was dark and cozy. There were stained-glass lamps, red plastic cups filled with Pepsi, a salad bar, arcade machines, and booths you could disappear into.
There is something slightly bizarre about homeschooling that we don’t talk about enough.
If you want to teach third grade at a public school, you’ll generally need a degree, teacher preparation, certification or licensure, background checks, and continuing professional development.
If you want to teach your own third grader?
In many states, the requirements are dramatically lower.
The middle class is easy to take for granted because, when it is healthy, it is almost invisible.
It is the family that owns a modest house, takes one vacation a year, replaces the car when it gets old, saves a little for retirement, and occasionally goes out to dinner without checking the bank account first. It is the teacher, electrician, nurse, accountant, small-business owner, technician, and office worker who may never become wealthy but reasonably expects that decades of work will produce a comfortable life.
