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A Sensible and Fair Minded Approach to GM Foods, Goddamnit

Many activists, moms and other jerks on the internet say that GM foods are a threat to other food species.

Travel Journal: Los Angeles

There are points in the Los Angeles day when, if you were to line up all the cars on the road, end to end, you would have exactly what was happening.

My New Year’s

People keep asking me, “Hey Miles, what’s your plan for New Year’s?” and I tell them, “I’m taking ecstasy,” which is a lie.

Living

“Everyone dies,” my uncle Ted once told me. So I killed him. If he had said “everyone lives,” I might not have. That’s the thing, everyone does live, or at least, everyone lives for awhile until they give it up to get a job. I myself have lived it up, lived in Napa and lived [...]

My Lonely Friend

Mike made artisanal chapstick on his secluded bee ranch up in the Sierra Mountains. He claimed that bees at higher elevations produced a subtler, breezier wax.

Friends

Friendship is a strange thing. As I see it, life’s a competition to obtain the most prizes which means that anyone else should be thwarted at every available opportunity.

A Typical Day

“First things first,” I always say. I say it all the time and no one ever disagrees. This is because I’m the boss around here and if people disagree with me I fire their asses. One time, I had a sandwich that didn’t agree with me so I fired that too. Some people beg me [...]