What does the word “enchanted” mean to you? Does it spark images of castles? Perhaps a lush rainforest full of colorful birds? Maybe you’re a Disney fan and you just think of the family Madrigal? Or are you one of the few weirdos who knows that the truest enchantment of all is a 30-mile stretch of “highway” in North Dakota known as the Enchanted Highway? Let’s talk about that. Ask a random person to list the things they know about North Dakota and you’ll likely get a list that includes lots of pauses, suggestions of things that are actually in…
Author: Kevin Nye
Kevin Nye
Kevin Nye grew up near Cleveland, was educated at Ohio University and was re-educated by living in Chicago and doing improv and sketch comedy. He is a triple threat of mediocrity.
Every now and then something perfect happens. A plan so simple yet so effective – so stupid yet so brilliant – comes to fruition and the world becomes a better place. Or in the case of the World’s Littlest Skyscraper, the world becomes a better place for everyone except the investors of the World’s Littlest Skyscraper. The story starts as so many in Texas do: An oil boom happened in 1912 near the city of Wichita Falls, Texas. With thousands of new settlers and millions of dollars flooding into the area, it only seemed right that the city of Wichita Falls…
If you’ve been involved in political snark over the past decade, you’ve surely heard something about bootstraps. It’s a common talking point – part of Republican messaging is that poor people should just work harder and “pull themselves up by their bootstraps.” A quick Google-search of “GOP + ‘bootstraps'” gives a heck of a lot of results, including but not limited to: So it’s not just something that lives in the imagination of liberals who like to point out that Republican policy holds people down from doing the very thing that they’re preaching. Though to be clear, the phrase 100% flies in…