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politics/sadness

Belonging

Posted on Thursday, March 1st, 2018 by Will Cox

Schools are some of my favorite places in the world. Were I to rank the pleasures in my life, they would be there with libraries, forests, and the quiet of an o...

economics/sadness

A Plague of Locusts

Posted on Friday, February 2nd, 2018 by Will Cox

The absurd contempt for life expressed in the apparent lack of concern for the necessities of survival — air, water, food — by the powerful drives m...

economics/sadness

Why I Cancelled My Newspaper Subscription

Posted on Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 by Will Cox

I’ve maintained a subscription to the deadtree edition of my local newspapers since I was old enough to pay my own bills. I’ve continued to subscrib...

sadness

The Case of the Wrong Way Driver

Posted on Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 by Will Cox

On July 26th, Diane Schuler left Sullivan County, New York, on her way home to Long Island. Around 1:30 p.m., she entered the northbound Taconic State Parkway f...

liberty/rhetoric/sadness

Speaking of Hate

Posted on Monday, April 20th, 2009 by Will Cox

I really hate that the rhetoric of liberty is perverted in the service of illiberal causes. And I hate this not just because of the hypocrisy of it. I hate this...

sadness

Bobby Dunbar

Posted on Monday, April 20th, 2009 by Will Cox

I’m listening again to This American Life‘s story “The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar.” The story is remarkably affecting, sad, and hard to imagi...

sadness

Lost Friends

Posted on Thursday, November 13th, 2008 by Will Cox

I lost touch with my room-mate from Hampden-Sydney. He dropped out after my first semester there, and I ended up with a single for the next year. We did not kee...

sadness

Evolution in Action

Posted on Tuesday, August 17th, 2004 by Will Cox

This is sad, but preventable. Can you count how many ways these parents were irresponsible? Sorry about the guilt, folks, but it’s yours to bear.

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