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Musician being dragged by children.

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 cracking his back in the middle of the game.

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.

By Simon Rich

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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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Two sentient hot dogs watching another sentient hot dog walking a dog, on a leash, shaped like a hot dog.

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Today’s cartoon, by Hartley Lin:

A man speaks to a woman under a shared umbrella as they cross a street in the rain.

“What confuses me most about all the parabolic advances with A.I. is that umbrellas are still the same.”

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Kirk Douglas tied to the mast of a ship.

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By David Denby

Andrew Tate collage with shadows of women underneath.

A Reporter at Large

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