Emails

Doping For Dopamine

I am in a serious rush today, so this will be a bit of a “basic bitch” email. But I want to get it out anyway since it’s been awhile since I talked to ya’ll. (in my “other” job this is a very busy time of the year, and as some of you have seen […]

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The Manosphere Ghetto

Nabeel Azeez — the marketing savant who runs drop-kick copy — tweeted out a quote today I had totally forgotten, but got the gears in my mind turning. It was a comment Mike Cernovich made to Roosh V a few years before his big ascent into media stardom: “I’ve got to get out of the manosphere ghetto.” Most

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The Cost Of Numbing Yourself

The other day a tragedy happened. A good friend of my wife and I — one of the coolest, most loving, funny people we knew — died. He was 35. The cause? Alcoholism. He got checked into the hospital earlier this summer with cirrhosis, and almost died then. The rest of the summer he was

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What’s Behind The Beta

People talk about Alpha and Beta a lot as ways to indicate a woman’s sexual responsiveness to a man. Generally this is shorthand for the “lover-provider” paradigm — the Alphas of course being the lovers, the Betas the providers. This is a useful heuristic in many ways (and a great rhetorical tool, especially if you’re

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The Burden of Power

Someone the other day on Twitter noted how interesting it is reading the biographies of famous people. Not because of what they’re famous for, mind you, but for what they did before. Invariably, their lives weave through all sorts of adventures and tragedies before they end up in their role that defines them historically. I mentioned Churchill

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