Class, Food Stamps, and Goosefat Cheesecake

Over at the Guardian, Suzanne Moore offers up a bite-sized analysis of the nexus between food choice, class, celebrity chefs, and rising inequality in Britain.

It’s Really Just a Government-Sanctioned Diet, You See

I'm hungry.

Living in Squalor for Artistic Freedom

Bryan Saunders has been going viral lately thanks to his series of self-portraits done under the influence of a wide variety of drugs. Jon Ronson visited the artist at his home in Johnson City, Tenn. (and was the first reporter to do so), to see how Saunders does what he does.

We Are All the Worst, But Slavoj Žižek Is the Best

A philosopher after my heart.

What Your Handwriting Says About You

The Guardian asked English novelist Philip Hensher to look at people's handwriting and imagine what it revealed about the writer.
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Awareness Want Ad for a ‘Torturer’ is Effective

Instead of talking about Facebook, or Mark Zuckerberg this morning, let's talk about this job ad in The Guardian for a "torturer."