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All It Takes Is One.
Finally got around to reading Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario and the striking thing is not the ending, exactly — our radioactive annihilation has been played out in countless books and movies, with the Cold War movie Threads frequently hailed as among the most realistic. It’s the beginning of her book that’s scary. See,…
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Would You Read This? Edition 2
“You’re misremembering,” Victor said. “Like the Shaq genie movie.” “Kazaam,” Angeline said. “My son still swears that was a thing,” Larry said.
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What is your generation ranting about lately?
So, I was researching characters for something I’m working on and I was curious to know what GenX people are listening today. As in, what’s on their playlists now, not what was on their CDs in their car in 1998. My 50-something guy is driving down the road, listening to… what, exactly? Since I don’t…
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The Selfishness of My Self-Grief.
Grief is one of those strange words marked by the English language’s characteristic imprecision, a single word covering many discrete emotions. In its most common usage, we grieve over the loss of a loved one after their death. A family member, or perhaps a pet. It is this grief that keeps funeral homes in business;…
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No, the guns aren’t going away. Ever.
Add to my list of things that I refuse to have an opinion on: guns in America. Don’t get me wrong; I’d wish away guns in civilian hands in a heartbeat if I could. But that’s irrelevant. The undeniable fact is, a solid chunk of American voters like it the way it is, school shootings…
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Why do we teach women to fear random men?
The title is a direct quote from this tweet that made the rounds last week. The first case involves Brian Schaffer, a 27 year old med student at Ohio State. He led a stable life, was doing well in med school, and had a girlfriend. One weekend night, April 1, 2006, he went out drinking…
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Can conglomerates make fun games anymore?
Is it time to give up on the big-huge-massive gaming companies’ method of game development? On the right, we see the player numbers on Steam for the AAA title “Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League,” by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Warner Bros. Gaming, itself a division of the media goliath Warner Bros Discovery (WBD). Attached…
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Things I refuse to take sides on.
Spend a lot of time on social media… or a medium amount of time, or a little time, or if your social media exposure is restricted to tweets the teevee people show on the news after your afternoon stories… and you’ll know that you’ll be made to care about every issue, from world events to…
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Controlled substances: threat, or menace?
Let me start today by stating that in my current practice, I write precisely zero (0) prescriptions for controlled substances a day. In addition, my estimation for the ethics and basic morality of the modern medical profession remains, shall we say, a bit lower than my regard for the legal profession. With that out of…
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Top 5 Productions presents: Pop Stars
This was meant to be in honor of the 25th anniversary of the High Fidelity movie which inspired the show (that was never given a chance), and which I could have absolutely sworn was released in 1999… but today I learned it’s actually the 24th anniversary. Oh well; let’s roll with this anyway. One of…
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