For the last several decades, I have responded to requests to go camping with the same refrain: Jews don’t camp. Well, maybe we’re not alone. Here’s The New Republic’s Ryan Kearney with a take on the subject: White People Love Hiking. Minorities Don’t. Here’s Why. (He leaves out the possibility that maybe minorities are sick of hanging out with white people and just want to enjoy it when they’re gone. You know, like the Bay Area during Burning Man.)

+ OK, let me make it up to all you Burners. Did you know that the first Google Doodle
was a Burning Man stick figure?