Can You Just Take an Item From a Grocery Store if It’s Clearly Marked “Free”?
Any reasonable person knows that milk cartons don’t contain cheat codes for free stuff that only insufferable grammarians can decipher.
Why Are Oregon Incumbents Allowed a Head Start on Filing for Office?
Thanks to recent developments in Montana’s U.S. Senate primary, your bland query is suddenly crackling with the fierce urgency of tomorrow’s headlines.
Why Are Students Who Blaze Through Assignments Rewarded With Screen Time?
There is free time, but activities are generally chosen from a relatively wholesome menu—and, in any case, they’re more a classroom management tool than a reward for laxity.
Have Illegal Drug Prices Increased Since the Military Started Blowing Up Boats?
Even if U.S. drug policy weren’t being created by people with the analytical skills of a meth-addled raccoon, it probably still wouldn’t make much of a dent.
Why Don’t the Trail Blazers Allow Marriage Proposals on the Jumbotron?
It’s not hard to see why a forward-thinking organization might prefer to keep its head down and leave the jumbotron proposals to the Oklahoma City Thunders of the world.
Who First Called Portland the “Plumber’s Butt of America”?
If your brain-dead co-workers didn’t make it up, who did? For once, we actually know.
Do Warm Golf Balls Go Farther Than Cold Ones?
Golf science is like early Christianity, with competing sects all disagreeing on obscure points of doctrine and perennially accusing each other of heresy.
Are Americans Shrinking?
Is our physical stature waning along with our moral authority in the world?
Does Reviving Someone With Narcan Open the Reviver to Legal Liability?
You’re not a medical professional, and thus are not bound by legal and ethical standards.
Do Doctors Not Wear White Coats Anymore?
The coats increasingly seem to be products of a bygone era.









