Daily Duh
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We Do Not Like Green Eggs, Ham, Dr. Seuss, and Getting Caught
Ever notice how sometimes a news story provokes the media to leap to leap to someone’s defense? Which is generally to ridicule the story that got everyone upset in the…
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Don’t Be White: Be a Plagiarist
You’ve probably heard the kerfuffle about Coca-Cola telling their employees to “Be less white.” And they did, sort of, but the full story offers more schadenfreude than two whole weeks…
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Cell Phones Ain’t Guns
Today’s Daily Duh comes to you from Slate via Hannah Riley, and it’s a fascinating display of cognitive dissonance: In most federal and state prisons and jails, cell phones are…
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That Gorilla Glue Incident? It Happened Because RACISM
If you’ve been under a rock or something, here’s the TL;DR version: One Tessica Brown ran out of hair gel, so she sprayed Gorilla Glue on her hair. That was…
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Wimpy Reporter’s Shoulder vs. Marcus Adams’ Family Jewels
In 2016, Gersh Kuntzman, a New York Daily News reporter, visited a firing range to see what it’s like to shoot “military-style” weapons: viz., the AR-15, aka “a mass murderer’s best friend.”…