Most of the literature I consume is sci-fi/fantasy. (More sci-fi than fantasy but still). I usually go out of my way to watch sci-fi/fantasy
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Category: Locke
Protecting My Rights – Whom Do I Trust
2001 – 9/11. Keep your head down. No one will notice you. It’s going to be okay. 2002/2003 – “Go home!” someone screams at
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United Airlines and the Price Race to the Bottom
United Airlines is a dickwad. By now, just about everyone knows the incident where police, at the request of United Airlines, forcibly dragged a
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The Un-Civil States of America
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the death of civil society and what it means to sound right in the course of attempting
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The Significance in Populism, Jihadism and Communism
Why do individuals turn to extreme solutions in their quest for a life of significance? There is a current running through right-wing populism which
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My President was a Third Culture Kid
Although he may not have meant it, Ta-Nehesi Coates’ article on President Obama in The Atlantic pretty much names him a Third Culture Kid (TCK)
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Taking President-elect Trump Seriously
I heard an interesting quote the other day, Donald Trump’s supporters took the man seriously but didn’t take his words seriously. Trump’s opponents took
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At Least Hillary Clinton isn’t Donald Trump
Or … She Ain’t That Muchuva Jagoff I’m not all that broken up about Hillary Clinton getting my vote for President on Election Day.
Continue readingDavid Bowie’s Under Pressure and the Challenge of Love
As much as I loved David Bowie’s role as Cultural Icon David Bowie in Zoolander and would have enjoyed seeing him do a cameo
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Catholic Muslims: The Pope and the Qur’an
Pope Francis released an encyclical today discussing the environment and humanity’s responsibility to be good shepherds of it. Quoth Rod Dreher: What Francis has
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