No matter how much of my life I spend at a desk and how rarely I get out of the city, I'll still always be a pocketknife guy. Turns out a lot of our readers are the same. For me, the first knife you should buy yourself to go with any of your heirlooms or hand-me-downs is a Case Trapper. It's the quintessential American knife, and as useful today as it was in 1920. If you need any more convincing, I wrote 1,000 words on it this week. – Luke Guillory, commerce editor Plus: |
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For less than $50, the iconic Case Trapper is our favorite EDC item. |
I haven't known a world where guys don't have folding knives on them at all times. My dad has never left the house without one and has surrendered plenty to the TSA. Starting with both my grandfathers, as far back as we can trace, my family were farmers. Though they were not so adventurous as to be trappers, a knife was still an occupational tool, something a father gifts a son or a general gift for men to give each other. I do not live that life. I'm as far removed from it as you can get. Having a knife on the street in New York isn't illegal, but it's certainly frowned upon. I still have a Case Trapper on my desk, but the closest it's come to a harvest is opening a package with my Luccheses in it. I do, however, use it every day. Sometimes "use" is opening a package, cutting a thread, or fiddling with it while I think about quitting my job and getting serious about my garden. Point is, there's still a place for a pocketknife in modern life. |
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Here's the skinny: Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency have, by their estimate, slashed federal budgets to the tune of $150 billion. That's far short of the $2 trillion that was initially promised, but it's still a lot. A great deal of these cuts have come from the science sector: research programs, grants, and scholarships. Trials of cures for cancer and AIDS have been frozen, just as those cures seem tantalizingly within reach. The students and scientists we aren't firing, we're intimidating. While the purge plays out, an overzealous U. S. Customs and Border Protection department is chilling international students' and workers' freedom of speech. When you make smart and ambitious young people feel unwelcome in America and give them no indication that they'll have a job in this country at all—much less one that can't be eliminated with a keystroke, much less one that would be free from the input of Eric Trump—they may eventually decide not to come here. The innovation and brainpower have to go somewhere, and the rest of the world is making our brain drain their gain. Australia has introduced a new Skills in Demand visa to streamline the process of repatriating skilled migrants. It is dangerous to allow Australia to get an edge on the United States in scientific research when they are already so much better at flirting than we are. They cannot be allowed to poach our talent and have a cooler version of football. |
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I've been married for twenty-seven years and, honestly, it's been a great ride. My wife and I don't fight much. We have three beautiful kids. And we've always had an active sex life, like multiple times a week at least. But things change over time, especially with women. Giving birth to three children is no joke. My wife had to have an episiotomy after our third daughter, who we always joke has the shoulders of a linebacker. Over the years, she became increasingly frustrated with how different everyday things like going to the bathroom had become since giving birth. One day I asked her if the changes impacted our sex life too, and she said yes, it wasn't the same as before. That led us to talking about what we could do to possibly improve the situation for her. I honestly didn't need things to be different. I'm batting a thousand every time we hop into bed together. But my wife's pleasure is really important to me. I want her to enjoy sex. So we started looking into potential procedures she could do to get her back to how she felt before children. |
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