David Sedaris on the communist health care systems of Europe (The New Yorker). Us commies.

“Borden, who lived in the seventeenth century, and was a man of keen intelligence, tells us of a monk he knew, who practised bloodletting to an unlimited extent. After three bleedings, he would add a fourth, for the reason that there are four seasons, four quarters of the globe, and four cardinal points. After the [...]

What’s x? Nobody knows. They only have y. (But not really. We do though. (That’s what we think, at least.)) … Who’s we? We is z.

Happy New Year, drunken fools. Gelukkig Nieuwjaar, hooggeëerde mede-Nederlanders.

I do not know how it feels to be a second-rate citizen by law, growing up in a liberal and progressive country, but I do know how it feels to be considered second-rate and to be treated like you are worth nothing. It still amazes me that evolved and cultured people in this day and [...]