We’ll Let You Know If You’re Crazy
Meet the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It can change your sentencing. It can change our laws. And, of course, it’s written by an unelected group of specialists who are or recently were on the payrolls of major pharmaceutical companies.
It’s the opposite of that common sense cliché, “you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone.” In this case, you don’t know what you’re missing ‘til you have it.
Welcome to #MondayMeme, a new shameless attempt by Full Stop to game the Internet. Today we’ve collected the finest results of our #booksforbirds Twitter experiment for your enjoyment.
On Downton Abbey and SOPA and America
Like any real American, I know deep down that, in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, our great nation’s legal system is designed exclusively to cater to my personal needs and wants.
I rarely consider the dark side of reading and touring.
Muhammad Ali turned 70 this week, but the heavyweight event that garnered the most attention matched web users and several high-profile sites against the villainous RIAA/MPAA.
It’s 2:30 in the morning and I can’t go to sleep. Somebody read me a bedtime story.
Traveling On Your Desert Island
Traveling can feel something like a desert island experience. The isolation of being so physically close to a bunch of strangers. The monotony of manufactured seats and two-dimensional landscapes going past the window. The waiting.
The Illuminating Lifestyle and Murky Death of Pablo Neruda
Lessons gleaned and suspicions raised regarding Pablo Neruda’s life and death.
Has there ever been a historical moment when the people living it were so deeply, painfully, purposefully aware of its historical momentousness?