From Mr. Barry's substack. First up, April 11:
Tariffs
A Technical Analysis
Our topic today is: Tariffs. What are they? How do they work? What the hell is happening? Will we all end up homeless and eating out of dumpsters? And how come we always want to spell "tariffs" with two "r"s?
These are all important questions, and I will address them shortly. But first I want to tell you about a situation I had recently involving my private parts....
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And April 28:
New York City
Try not to inhale.
Recently I spent several days in New York City, having traveled there for the same reason that, over the years, has compelled so many millions of people to visit that world-class center of art and culture: My daughter was having her wisdom teeth extracted.
You may wonder: Why do we even have wisdom teeth? To answer that question, we must go back millions of years to the Paleolithic Era, which gets its name from the Greek words "paleo," meaning "a whole lot of," and "lithic," meaning "chewing."
Paleolithic humans ate what we call the Paleo Diet, or, as it was known back then, the Regular Diet. It consisted of naturally disgusting foods such as roots and raw mastodon meat. Because this food was unprocessed, early humans had to chew it for a long time before they could swallow it, especially if the mastodon was still moving. Legend has it that one tribe chewed on a mastodon for three full weeks, trotting alongside it all the way across the land bridge from Asia, which led to the discovery of North America, or, as it was known back then, North Mexico....
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And finally, May 5:
My Book Tour
Look out, America.
So I wrote a memoir. The title is Class Clown, and the central literary theme is that, after a long and rewarding career in the field of humor, I am still not dead. Although that could change soon, to judge from the book tour I'm about to embark on.
Usually on a book tour, the order in which you go to cities is related, at least vaguely, to where the cities are physically located. This is not the case with my Class Clown tour, which was planned by the Random Cities Generator. Here's a map showing my itinerary (I am not making this itinerary up):...
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