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Stories written by jmt
John Michael Thornton dreamed of being a bomb-throwing leftist, until he blew out his arm and required season-ending Tommy John surgery. He is now a writer living in the Bay Area, and can be reached at john.michael.thornton@aya.yale.edu.

Jonathan Coulton: Code Monkey

Louis C.K.: Children and their Secrets

xkcd: Strunk and White

Randall Munroe is the writer and illustrator of xkcd, a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. He posts a new comic every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at www.xkcd.com. He…

Smothers Brothers: My Old Man

A Bit of Fry and Laurie: A Discussion of Language

Norm McDonald Tells “The Moth Joke”

The Firesign Theater: Beat the Reaper

In this sketch from The Firesign Theater a contestant on a game show must determine what he has been infected with in order to “Beat…The…Reaper!”…

MLK Meets the 24-Hour News Cycle

Written by David Klumpp/Illustrated by Mike Thornton • The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech in Washington today promoting civil rights. “I have a dream,” King said, among…