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The Pied Piper
The man with the fife was good at getting rid of Hamelin’s rats. What, the townspeople wondered, could he do with the children?
By Simon Rich
Mario, Not So Super at Forty
Decades of the running, the jumping, and the smashing the bricks with the head takes its toll. Sorry, Princess, it’s spinal-fusion time.
The Best Scammy Self-Help Books of the Summer!
“Let’s Save Our Trees” (hardback edition!), the minimalist shopping guide, and other best-sellers by hypocrites.
By Liana Finck
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Today’s cartoon, by Hartley Lin:
“What confuses me most about all the parabolic advances with A.I. is that umbrellas are still the same.”
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