Time has (not) picked its 2011 Person of the Year: “The Protestor.” This marks the 85th time the magazine has published the annual special, beginning in 1927 with famed aviator Charles Lindberg.
Formerly known as “Man of the Year” until it was changed in 1999, Time has always […]
I wasn’t alone in worrying that the Arab Spring uprising that usurped Hosni Mubarak’s totalitarian regime masquerading as a democracy could, if unchecked, transition power to one of two potentially more dangerous forces: the country’s military, which had for years enforced Mubarak’s policies until he became a liability, and the political groups within the country […]
Don’t get me wrong. I believe a candidate’s faith is very important and should be one of the criteria people use to decide who gets their vote. I just don’t believe it should matter which faith is in play.
Faith is not […]
Chango’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes by William Kennedy, not that this cat gives a shit.
I’m truly and sincerely putting forth an honest effort to spend more time reading. But life, or at least 21st Century post-print life, is wrought with distractions that are pleasing at the time but unbearably frustrating after the fact.
Drastic […]
Like so many other things that would make this world a better place, this isn’t real. If it was, though? I’d definitely pay for it.
The “Fatality” at the end is perfect.
There were two attacks yesterday in Norway. In one, an all too familiar disruption of civic operation and organization that took the lives of nearly a dozen and counting in downtown Oslo. Then, just hours later, a different kind of terror altogether, one that seems unfathomable: a lone gunman opening fire on a youth sumer […]
It’s a new turn of phrase I’m working on.
I’m obsessed with Paulie’s Robot. It made its cinematic debut in Rocky IV, where the titular protagonist is pit against the pharmaceutically-enhanced Soviet murder machine […]
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