Kate Cohen
Kate Cohen is an Albany, New York, writer, a former Washington Post columnist, and the author of We of Little Faith. On Substack, she writes a column called Scratch, which celebrates the fight for human agency in a culture awash in cheap consumer goods and A.I. This essay is adapted from Scratch.
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According to the FCC website, federal law prohibits the broadcast of anything obscene, indecent, or profane. Of course, what’s obscene, indecent, or profane is somewhat up for debate, but you probably have a general idea of the words I can’t say and the images I can’t try to summon in your heads. -
When people say, “Think outside the box,” the box I picture is Bisquick.That’s a popular baking mix, of course, and it’s also what General Mills used to call the biscuits you could make with it.
