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In The Red, In The Black 13 Sep 2012 | 07:40 am
The past few weeks, up to and including yesterday’s (and today’s) violence in Libya and Egypt, often cause me to fear that we are entering another Dark Age, or, worse, that we may already be in the mi...
Godspeed, Eagle One 26 Aug 2012 | 10:55 pm
Neil Armstrong has died. Gosh, man, it’s the end of an era. But then, eras are ending and beginning all the time. Still, to me, it feels like the First Age of Space Exploration has just finally com...
??? 3 Aug 2012 | 06:42 am
It seems that words and meaning have finally parted company altogether in our society. Read this ad I saw on a New York train this morning and try to make sense of it. “No matter what you want, it’s ...
This American Lie 26 Mar 2012 | 06:18 am
By now, the news cycle, as it does, has very nearly turned full circle on the Mike Daisey incident. It’s interesting to note that the time required for a thing like this to cycle through the media mi...
Everthin’ G’won Be Fine, Mes Amis 6 Oct 2011 | 02:17 pm
I originally recorded what I’m about to write as a youtube video/podcast, but I got cold feet at the last minute about signing up to put my voice on the internet, and so here we are. But I wanted to ...
Imagination Christmas 6 Aug 2011 | 01:47 pm
Panic, panic, panic! That seems to have become America’s top export. This week has also been an object-lesson in how that most powerful of mental states can grip an entire people so firmly. Watchin...
The Achiever’s Index: STARSHIP INVASIONS 4 Jul 2011 | 04:01 pm
You know, I’d been wondering for some time, while writing these little essays for the Achiever’s Index, why I would bother to include the lower ranks, particularly the rank of “Travesty.” I mean, if ...
The Achiever’s Index: FLCL 13 May 2011 | 01:30 pm
Okay, so I figured it was time for another essay on arts and such, and so I decided to expand the horizons of The Achiever’s Index into the world of animation. And for starters, we have the unbelieva...
Once The Killing Starts… 23 Mar 2011 | 10:52 am
I would like to draw your attention to a commentator I follow, Josh Huffman of The Virginia Conservative, who sums up the lunacy going on in North Africa quite well on his website today. Essentially,...
The Truth Deferred 20 Mar 2011 | 11:54 am
Today I will not comment on the depressing and violent turn of events in the Middle East and North Africa, but instead draw your attention to what I consider to be the the very root of all of these pr...