We’re in the home stretch of the 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge, as we begin our final book of the season: The Friend by Sigrid Nunez. We’re again joined by our August judge, Emma Straub, in conversation with Nozlee Samadzadeh.
11hJust 500 farmers in one Arizona county may decide the fate of the entire Southwest.
↩︎ Water Deeply
19hYour first thought after a big psychedelic experience is not “When can I do it again?” It’s like, “Do I ever have to do it again?”
↩︎ The Mercatus Center
20hThrough a combination of bad faith, motivated reasoning, and sheer incompetence, austerians have directly created the problem their entire program was supposed to avoid.
↩︎ The Week
21h“An escalator can only become stairs.” Most of Mitch Hedberg’s material I would steal and make as my own and people would be like, “Yeah, that still makes sense.”
↩︎ Vulture
21hWhile my nephew, Stephen, was famously recovering from the hardships of his high school cafeteria in Santa Monica, Joseph was a child on his own in Sudan in fear of being deported back to Eritrea to face execution for desertion.
↩︎ Politico
1d“Jaguar is the day’s animal. It means fortitude,” Plevin told us as we moved on to the next activity. “Pick a partner. Discuss your need for fortitude.”
↩︎ Outside Magazine