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World Peace in My Lifetime

by March 17th, 2011 - Politics » Science » Society »

We, all of us, seek nothing from our lives but World Peace, I know. But where all others have failed, we might yet succeed if we follow my very simple plan. Pulling all of Earth’s assets to one single objective, we need only construct a sufficient enough rocketship in which I will be placed and […]

Complete Back Amputation, A True Tale

by February 25th, 2011 - Science » Culture » Sports » Creative » Writing »

I remember when I think it happened. I was playing basketball, one-on-one, and I was in a rare Dirk Nowitzki can-not-miss mode while playing much better defense than the my NBA reference. I had a bit of a throbbing pain in my inner thigh, but I told myself, “Just play through it, pussy. How many […]

Sherlock Holmes: What is in a Name?

by November 10th, 2010 - Culture »

Image copyright BBC How cool is the new Sherlock show from the BBC? Doctor Who show-runner, Steven Moffat(Doctor Who, Jekyll) and Mark Gatiss (League of Gentlemen) take the bastard brilliance of Sherlock Holmes and jam in modern time, casting Martin Freeman (Office, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) as Doctor Watson. I do not actually know […]

Stargate Battlemeh

by December 27th, 2009 - Culture » Film and TV »

Near the end of the spectacular-but-for-its-ending Battlestar Galactica, panic reasonably began to creep into the cybernetic hearts of its loyal geeks. What to do when its all over…MAN!? SciFi, the network prior to rebranding as the less logical and only slightly more catchy moniker of SyFy, seemed to be making attempts to preemptively fill your […]

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