In “Plan B,” the pilot episode of Master of None, Aziz Ansari’s new, execrable half-hour comedy series, from Netflix, two quirky New York singles make a trip to the corner drugstore, to buy the eponymous pill. Both […]
Tag: Life
The Strawberry Criterion: Sicario
Midway on her life’s journey, a woman finds herself in a dark wood, the right road lost. By no choice of her own, she finds herself in Juarez, a city where even heavily armed women can […]
A New BPoFD.com
In October, it will be five years since Carmen Petaccio founded Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators. It’s amazing to think what fruits of his invention persist from that first post until today: hysterical diatribes, wrathful pans, interviews both […]
How Italian Is Carly Fiorina, Exactly?
Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett Packard CEO who now stands–among her 15 male counterparts–as the lone female in consideration for the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination, has built an ascendent political career on the pillars of business savvy, […]
To Our New Dog, Formerly Known As Bobette, Who Apparently Has a Penis
Dear Brucie, When the unsuspecting veterinarian discovered a respectably sized dog penis between your legs, the only thing that changed, in our eyes, was your name. Though gender may be a definitive biological reality for some, it […]
To Bobette, Our New Dog, On The Day of Her Adoption
Dear Bobette, Like dogs, every human person is born with a heart. Human hearts beat in our chests as a dog heart beats in your little furry one, and the same applies to all mammals: hearts […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Go Set A Watchman
More than half a century separates the publication of Go Set A Watchman, Harper Lee’s intriguingly flawed second novel, from the release of To Kill a Mockingbird, its beloved predecessor, in July, 1960, and it will likely take an […]
My Fantasy Football Keepers, Sleepers, and Bad Mother-Bleepers
In a little more than one week’s time, on Thursday, September 10th, the New England Patriots will host the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first game of the NFL’s 2015 regular season, and, for the tens of […]
Guns Aren’t the Issue. Mental Health is the Issue.*
Just before seven yesterday morning, a former employee of Roanoke, Virginia’s WDBJ news station shot and killed two newscasters, Alison Parker and Adam Ward, with a legally obtained handgun. A third casualty, Vicki Gardner, was […]
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