the washington post has an incredible interactive story that shows just how destructive a bullet from an AR-15 is to the body — using animated recreations of the wounds that killed 6-year-old Noah Pozner and 15-year-old Peter Wang — and the end of the page just broke my heart
When I was a kid, I saw Sugar Ray perform live for some reason, and my brain decided that Sugar Ray and Papa Roach were the same band. I also used to get Meet Joe Black mixed up with Mighty Joe Young.
In George Orwell’s “1984”, the protagonist hates big brother, until he’s captured and they dump rats on his head. The experience makes him a model citizen: completely altering his personality and behavior. Thus, “1984” is literature’s first ratatouille. In this essay, i will–