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  • Recess is the ultimate Millennial beverage: "CBD? Check. Bubbles? Check. Ironic fonts? Check. The aggressive marketing of commodified wellness? Oh yes."
  • Joshua Tree national park announced that it is closing after trees have been destroyed amid the government shutdown.
  • Jeff Bezos announced that he and his wife MacKenzie are divorcing.
  • New York is in the midst of an outbreak of measles, with 167 cases of the highly infectious virus since September.
  • You better make sure that puppy you saw online that you want to buy is really real.
  • FYI, regarding Trump's claims about terrorism at the border: "There is no wave of terrorist operatives waiting to cross overland into the United States," Nicholas Rasmussen, the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said. "It simply isn’t true."
  • WeWork is now The We Company. Do we care?
  • Paul Schrader talked about the meaning of the ecstatic ending of his brilliant First Reformed.
  • During a 10-minute interview on Good Morning America, Kevin Hart said some variation of "I’m over it" a total of 14 times in regards to the Oscar controversy.
  • The Chrysler Building is up for sale.
  • Here are two sentences from Bari Weiss' terrible column about visiting Australia that undermine her whole dumb point: "The political is not personal, and that’s not just because so many of the big issues that tear Americans apart (health care, guns, the social safety net) are settled. It’s that Australians never seem to doubt that there is more to life than politics."
  • Would you willingly biochip yourself?
  • And finally, now would be a good time for everyone to freak out: