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Writer, provoker. Portmanteau aficionado. http://www.cannonwriter.com americabutbetter.com
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The United States of what now? Watch and share our new video, and add your own photo or video to the comments -- hell, all over the internet -- telling America what you think of their.......suggestion. #NoThankYou🇨🇦 youtu.be/jPB4_CqNf5A?...

Facts are Satan's way of hiding the truth.

Hi, I took a handful of old horror stories I had sitting around and put them in a little book, I'd say you should buy it but I'm making the Kindle version free for a few days so you don't even have to go that far: www.amazon.com/Cold-Days-Ma...

This week in Rejected by McSweeney's. medium.com/rejected-by-...

"hey, do you have that new slogan I commissioned" "yeah boss, real confusing and weirdly demoralizing, just like you asked"

We made this 8 years ago. How is it still so relevant!? youtu.be/sCyzdD0vYOw?...

My new post in Rejected by McSweeney's. Let's update those maps, people. medium.com/rejected-by-...

I started a new blog follow it and make everyone else follow it. Literally where I will be dumping every one of my pieces that McSweeney's rejects. medium.com/rejected-by-...

Say it with me, @nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com: "Elon Musk made a Nazi salute while standing at a lectern bearing the Presidential Seal."

Schrödinger's Facebook.

8 years ago. Still legit. youtu.be/4ORe6TmRjOQ?...

Navigating my empathy for climate-change deniers losing their homes in a wildfire.

"Gulf of America" is the new "Freedom Fries"

Sad to lose Peter Yarrow today. I interviewed Peter, Paul, and Mary in 1998 on the topic "What makes a song endure?" This was Peter's take.

I wrote this about Steve Bannon 7 years ago and apparently he has succeeded in his search. www.thebeaverton.com/2017/08/stev...

My latest: On intellectual automation and algorithmic deans. magazine.alumni.ubc.ca/2023/fall-20...

How old are you? Are you sure? Really enjoyed writing this piece for @UBCMagazine on measuring age chemically instead of chronologically. Check out the science of epigenetics. magazine.alumni.ubc.ca/2023/spring-...

Today in The New Republic. My dream is to stop writing these stories. “How we choose to navigate our pain and anger today casts the die for the world that inherits our choices. If we want to stop terrorism, we need to stop creating terrorists.” newrepublic.com/article/1762... @tnr.bsky.social