This week’s been all coronavirus, all the time — and for good reason. Honestly, it might be better for us all to turn off our brains for awhile, since it seems like the only thing the news has been doing is making us anxious. On an immediate level, the stress is probably worse for your health. But who knows, maybe by the time you’re reading this, we’ll all be under mandatory quarantine in our homes. And if that’s the case, at least you’ll have plenty of time to read about what it’s like to teach white-collar criminals about prison.
Must Read
Other Long Reads from the Week That Was
J.T. O’Sullivan Is Quickly Becoming on YouTube What He Never Was in the NFL — A Star
The Aforementioned Coronavirus (Like You’re Thinking About Anything Else, Anyway)
Are You Washing Your Hands All Wrong? Only If You’re Overthinking It
Coronavirus Will Show Us Everything Wrong With American Health Care
The Teeth-Dick Nexus
There’s a Surprising Connection Between Healthy Teeth and Healthy Boners
Expert Opinions
More Good Stuff
A Highly Scientific Analysis of Pineapple as a Pizza Topping
In ‘Devs,’ the Future Is Already Here — And It’s a Total Cliché
Now You See It…
Visible Man: All the Ways We’ve Made the Invisible Man Visible on Screen
MEL@Dusk
But Don’t Just Take Our Word For It…
everyone quoted in this typically excellent @WeAreMel article is talking that talk
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“It’s pretty dark to go from a pretty solid and diverse editorial staff to what can only be described as lowest-common-denominator gay™ content.”https://t.co/5dHurYcJfa— Rae Nieves (@raeniev) February 28, 2020
Good and balanced piece on the myth of “Bernie Bros,” as well as the determination a small percentage of his supporters seem to still have to make the rest of them look bad https://t.co/XzRwUI0RGZ
— Summer Anne Burton (@summeranne) February 26, 2020
Got put on the spot about a story or franchise that I thought was really good and I panicked and all of sudden I was explaining the concept behind @WeAreMel’s ASS WEEK
— Spencer Dukoff (@SpencerDukoff) February 25, 2020
Magdalene Taylor
Magdalene Taylor is a staff writer at MEL. She covers internet culture, sex and the online adult industry. She lives in Brooklyn but is from God's Country, Western Massachusetts.
