Why We Need Pay Transparency

Years ago, I took part in an online experiment called The BMI Project. Hosted by Kate Harding, she collected photos of real women and tried to show that the BMI is bullshit. Check out the slideshow. Kate and I were friends, and I shared my weight over dinner. I weighed 130 lbs, and she said,…

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Book Review: The Last Black Unicorn

I finished a book called “The Last Black Unicorn” by Tiffany Haddish. She’s a comedian who starred in Girls Trip, a hilarious movie I watched in an aisle seat in the bulkhead row on a first-class flight from Raleigh to Los Angeles. As people congregated in the aisle and waited for the toilet in the…

You Need a Summit

America and the Soviet Union were mortal enemies when I was a kid. Ronald Reagan was a good guy leading a fight against the entrenched powers of communism and Orwellianism. Mikhail Gorbachev was a monster and wanted us to die in a nuclear holocaust and stand in a long line for bread in milk. And…

Work From Home

There’s snow here in Raleigh. A lot of it. Crazy. Not saying it’s been a tough week for people who work at an office. But 9-to-5 jamokes are forced to work from home. They are out of their routines. Spending a lot of time with partners and cats. Did you hear what I said? Can…

What Now? Thoughts on the #MeToo Movement

The other morning, I watched middle-school boys march to school. They were a loud gaggle of arms and legs and energy moving on impulse and swinging backpacks and books by their fingertips. These boys laughed and screamed and slammed themselves into one another like waves in the ocean as if their bodies existed only to…