Regular readers of the Sword & Shield may remember an article I wrote earlier this year enumerating my many reasons to be, to put it kindly, dissatisfied with the existence of the How To Train Your...

Like many students, I survived middle school by forming maladaptive coping mechanisms that to this day, haunt me like mildly irritating ghosts. One of these coping mechanisms was reading whatever popular...

Trigger warnings have been in the public consciousness for decades—originating on feminist messaging boards in the late 90’s—but only recently have I begun to see them used outside of a handful of...

DISCLAIMER: THIS ARTICLE IS SATIRE AND MEANT FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY.   There are many bad things in this world. But some outweigh the others so much that they deserve their own list,...

DISCLAIMER: THIS ARTICLE IS SATIRE AND MEANT FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY.   As a society, we have been indoctrinated with a cultural disgust of organisms that, like the humble Taenia solium,...

DISCLAIMER: THIS ARTICLE IS SATIRE AND MEANT FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY.   Recent measles outbreaks throughout the U.S. have been raising quite a fuss amongst the public, but frankly, they’re...

DISCLAIMER: THIS ARTICLE IS SATIRE AND MEANT FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY.   As a stranger on the internet, I am the single most qualified person to tell you how to raise your children. I...

I’ve never been a terribly huge fan of Starbucks—first because I simply didn’t care for their offerings, then because of their prolific anti-union efforts—but recently, I’ve acquired yet another...

Recently, I read the book Interstellar Megachef by Lavanya Lakshminarayan after picking it up in my local library. I was drawn in by the wacky title, and after reading the synopsis, I checked it out under...

I’m sure many of you are already well-aware that the proposed designs for the new MMSD high school logos are far from pleasing to the eye. Heck, art professor and West alumni Jeff Butler—who designed...

There’s a lot of great reasons why we need to take action to halt the climate crisis—rising sea levels, endangered species, the growing number of climate refugees, the increasing prevalence and strength...