Tangent

The Beauty of Anger

From Aristotle to Rick Mercer, the rant as a form of verbal jazz.

My Best Friend

Linguists studying beer commercials have found that we think of beer as a person. And this says a lot about the way we think of people.

Fool Me if You Can

The magician as society's outlaw.

It's Half-Empty, You Idiots!

Our silly, irrational, and absolutely necessary preoccupation with the best-case scenario.