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Rick Paulas

Rick Paulas has written for The Awl, Vice, Pacific Standard, McSweeney’s, and many other publications. His work can be found at rickpaulas.com, and his serialized novel-in-progress at oaktownnoir.com.

Running Riot

February 13, 2017
In Psychology 101 you learn of those “false binary” or “false dichotomy” situations that crop up where two viewpoints are so powerful they tend to pull all other options into their orbit. If you're not capitalist, you're socialist. In Chicago if you're not a White Sox ...

Not Unwinnable

January 16, 2017
As a general rule, it’s wise to steer clear from analyzing memes that originate and evolve on the Twittersphere. Users wield the medium in different enough ways that Twitter is at best a fractured discourse, it moves too quickly to be relevant longer than a day, and the ...