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Drew Magary

View of the Baltic Sea beach on the Gulf of Riga.

Funbag

I Crave The Ocean

The Hot Take Industrial Complex Cannot Be Killed By Conventional Means

Erling Haaland watches a ball fly over the heads of Ivory Coast players

A Clueless Soccer Guy’s Favorite World Cup Things

Brandy Jensen

A world cup fan holds a sign soliciting tickets

Should I Sell My Ludicrously Valuable World Cup Ticket?

What’s The Ideal Target For A Heist?

’60 Minutes’ Was A Good Show

There Are More Brendan Sorsbys To Come

Make It Nice

Minor Dilemmas

Advice

Protestors carry a coffin with an upside-down democratic party logo on it

I Am Captain Of The Democrats Now. Here Is My Battleplan.

How To Eat A Pop-Tart Correctly

A man tests the new touchscreen inside the new all-electric Volkswagen ID.4 that is on display inside a dealership

Fuck Touchscreens

The Jackson family poses on the red carpet

The Musical Biopic Is Dead

TREMOLI, ITALY - MAY 16: Portrait of professional road racing cyclist David Millar taken on May 16, 2011. (Photo by Joby Sessions/Procycling Magazine via Getty Images)

I Have No Pages

A Game Of ‘Clue’ Turns Into Open Warfare

How Many People Would It Take To Storm Mar-A-Lago?

Robert Redford and Paul Newman as cowboys in Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

I Wanna Be A Cowboy

Dave McKenna

What’s The Riskiest Thing You’ve Survived Eating?

Help! I Can’t Stop Farting In My Personal Office!

I Can’t Stop Reading Music History Books

The Kindness Of Familiar Faces

Breakfast tray on double bed next to open French doors.

I Burp My House Now

How Do I Get My Lazy Teen To Pick A College?

How Do I Be Nice To A Jesus Freak?

The Real Highlight Of The Super Bowl Was Josh McDaniels Eating Shit

The NFL Doesn’t Have To Pretend It’s Not An Old Boys’ Club Anymore

TV crews set up microphones at the House Tringale before the start of the press conference with comedian Jon Stewart on Monday, March 5, 2018, to call on OMB Director Mick Mulvaney to withdraw his proposal to separate the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP) from National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) direction.

Who Wants To Be A Hero?

Three characters in the Stranger Things finale

A Belated Review Of ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 (Which Sucked A Fat One)

US President Barack Obama holds up a jar of salsa while shopping at the Golden Fig food store in St. Paul, Minnesota on June 26, 2014. The store offers Minnesota produced foods and gifts. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN

Can I Use Salsa As A Salad Dressing?

Woman farmer feeding hogs Lisbon Falls, ME

Against “Slop”

Albert Burneko

Pedestrians pose for pictures in front of a giant Santa Claus figure displayed in a shopping mall in Berlin, on December 24, 2024.

Advertisers Mustn’t Besmirch The Sacred Seasonal Shopping Demon

The Apple Mail application icon is seen on an iPhone home screen in Warsaw, Poland on March 3, 2021.

Push Notifications Were Made To Imprison You

Pat McAfee Is Intolerable

A spectator attempts to complete a newspaper crossword during the Vitality County Championship match between Gloucestershire and Glamorgan at College Ground on July 01, 2024 in Cheltenham, England.