Rebranding Literature: Williams and Salinger

Rebranding Literature is a simple plan to make literature more relevant in the marketplace of ideas by maximizing revenue potential. Over the course of human history, great works of literature—including wildly popular pieces that are perennial sellers—have generated less revenue in aggregate than a single day’s worth of Starbucks sales. Why is literature losing out […]

A Life Examined

Tao skyrockets 1,000 points!

Buddhists shrug.

A Life Examined

Two months into the new year,

and the resolution FAIL is palpable….

A Life Examined

March 1 is simply too late

to send that stack of New Year’s greeting cards you so thoughtfully prepared.

Correctives

Sequester Day

Once more, with callused, exhausted fingers, we take up the pen. On November 6, 2012, as the last voters filed through the polls, we at Fiction Writers for Better Misinformation hung up our ink-stained capes, thinking we’d done all we could to keep America together through the divisive campaign season. We looked on with some […]

Frontiers of Knowledge

Tea Party-Affiliated Group Calls for Families to Do their Part to Protect Guns

A group claiming to represent true conservatives fed up with the continued demonization of handguns and assault weapons released a report stating that no gun regulations at all would be necessary if American families had more children.

Correctives

An Originalist Solution to Gun Control

Our nation is divided and many of us are pained by the seemingly irreconcilable differences between two groups of our fellow citizens. Gun control advocates, on the one hand, shocked by the devastation a disturbed person can cause with the aid of a few pounds of carefully machined steel and explosive powder, want to restrict […]

Correctives

Rebranding Literature: The Song of Solomon

Rebranding Literature is a simple plan to make literature more relevant in the marketplace of ideas by maximizing revenue potential. Over the course of human history, great works of literature—including sacred texts—have generated less revenue in aggregate than a single day’s worth of Starbucks sales. Why is literature losing out so badly to the coffee […]

Frontiers of Knowledge

The Missing Link: Men and Emotions, Part Three

It’s well established that men have trouble connecting with their true selves well enough to understand their own feelings. This causes no end of trouble, ranging from marital strife to fascism to monster truck rallies. The Stoneslide Corrective is working with a team of psychological researchers and clinicians to develop an intervention that can cut […]

The Stoneslide Chorus

Guest Editor: The Rejection Generator Project

Our latest Guest Editor at the Rejection Generator Project, Laurel Anne Hill, submitted a rejection so demeaning that the machine did not make a single change to her text. If you need to refresh your rejection immunity, go give yourself a shot, stat. KOMENAR Publishing released Heroes Arise, Laurel Anne Hill’s award-winning novel, in 2007. […]

Frontiers of Knowledge

New Word Invented by Amateur Linguist

We often wonder how different the world would be were it shaped by the pure dreamers rather than the ambitious pragmatists. Think of all the visions of a better society that fail because they have no plausible way to be brought into being. What if society progressed with giant leaps of imagination rather than the […]

A Life Examined

The IT Department’s User Support Manager Gets His Soliloquy (Or Is It Soliloquie?)

It’s simple. It’s so simple no one ever suspects it. So simple that real programmers would laugh at it. The program is a macro. It modifies the way Microsoft Word behaves. Of course, I have access to all the computers on the network, since I’m the admin. When I determine someone needs to be taken […]