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I've been reeling all day from the merely 600 page executive summary of the Senate torture report.  I can't even begin to process t...

Boston. The marathon bombing is the Big Story for the first hour of this final year. Weren't they going to start making shit up in th...

I've read nothing about the series, so I went into it completely unspoiled.  The good parts slightly outweighed the bad.  Fox dumped ...

Years ago I was given a copy of the book  Left Behind , which from the broad strokes I imagined to be a really neat premise for a story: wh...

My spring cleaning found a cache of vintage Electronic Games  magazines, with the linked issue being the top of the stack.  Of the many vide...

I spent much of the long weekend absorbing the response to the Santa Barbara rampage. I first learned of it on the following morning, by whi...

Y'know what else will destroy the economy?   The end of the world.

I remember reading the net outrage following  Tim Armstrong's recent "gaffe"  I started wondering just where his endgame was c...

In a typical year I probably consume hundreds of hours of narrative fiction.  Since I fancy myself to have high standards, I limit consumpti...

Lots of things got in the way of weekly television watching, much less writing.  With the decks clearing off for the end of year slowdown, I...