For five years, every Monday, the comedian Matthew Broussard has published a cartoon pun puzzle on his site, MondayPunday.com. It could just as well be called, “Think You’re Clever?” These are not painfully obvious joke drawings. Broussard’s visual puns are witty, subtle, and frequently adorable. Many of them are also quite difficult, which makes MondayPunday the kind of site...
An Open Letter to Councilmember Hugo Soto-MartinezDear Councilmember Soto-Martinez,
The man you replaced, Mitch O’Farrell, was perceived by many as a cynical politician who placed the desires of wealthy real-estate developers over the concerns of the people he was supposed to represent. Sensitive to any perception of impropriety, you’ve made it a point to not accept…
For more than forty years one of our favorite writers, Detroit-based Peter Werbe, has been publishing provocative essays about capitalism, technology, religion, politics, and popular culture in the anarchist journal The Fifth Estate, where he’s long been an indispensable member of the editorial collective. Some of his best work is now organized in a compulsively readable...
