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by RebeccaMcCarthyLast Monday, during Winter Storm Juno, the NYPD seized seventy-four rabbits from a vacant lot behind a tire shop in Gowanus. On Thursday afternoon, the authorities returned.

Humility - the acceptance that being human is good enough - is the embrace of ordinariness.

Saving an endangered species, one hat at a time.

by LoriFradkinThe word is douche bag. Douche space bag. People will insist that it's one closed-up word-douchebag-but they are wrong. When you cite the dictionary as proof of the division, they will tell you that the entry ...

by JamesDouglasA lot of Pixar films come packaged with a quasi-humanist narrative hook that enables the public digestion of their work. Viewers nodded thoughtfully over WALL-E's depiction of a future earth choked by the refuse of big-box ...

A number of Somalia's separatist states are run by diaspora groups in theMidwest.The Awdal Stateflag.In the spring of 2011, dozens of Somalis packed into an event hall to celebrate the impending election of the first ...

Why 'The New Yorker' Doesn't Have A PublicEditorI think I'm gonna buy myself a pair of those toe-sock-feet things, the shoes with toes in 'em? You know, like a glove for your foot, but it has ...

Deep globalization isreal.Image: FarrukhIf you ever go to Asia (do not do this, it is too big, and trying to comprehend it will only convince you that your mind was never meant to really comprehend anything) and you ...

by C. D.HermelinI moved to New York City, and I needed to make money. I wasn't having luck getting a job. It's a commontale.My solution was to grab my typewriter that I bought at ...

Like many people who moved to San Francisco in the early 1990s, I did it because San Francisco was cheap. It didn't have the lowest rents - in the California of three recessions ago, a Silver Lake bungalow or blocks-from-the-beach ...