Month: August 2010

I had this idea a long time ago, wrote a draft, then let it sit until now. Now I stand it up because my friend Iris insists that English would be a terrible language in which to discuss time travel.  Why? “Because you have verb tenses. In China, we just have a verb and specify…

A friend of mine recently told me that the best thing to do when someone tries to rob you is whatever they want. They’ve already broken the social contract. You don’t know what else they’re capable of, so you should just obey what they say and hope it ends quickly. This, to me, seems like…