Our Robot Overlords

Our Robot Overlords

Recently I grudgingly took the leap and upgraded my personal laptop to Windows 8… now with “SkyDrive,” so you can put all your personal files onto someone else’s computer (completely beyond your control) in the capable hands of a...
Fresh Pepper

Fresh Pepper

One side-effect of the digital information age is that much clandestine information— formerly inaccessible to the average American— has become readily available, making the outrageous misbehavior of big business seriously apparent to anyone who bothers to look. These...
Test Your Might

Test Your Might

There’s a lot of noise flying around today over a Congressional vote that rejected slightly-stricter gun ownership laws—specifically, an expansion of background checks. What’s funny about it (if “funny” can be ironically twisted into an...
Chili Con Carnage

Chili Con Carnage

The business world— oft beset by legions of dull, mono-thinking clock-watchers devoid of creativity and imagination— innately values the guiding motivational force generated by leaders who “have vision.” Such confirmed visionaries are highly regarded for...
Samurai Knight Fever

Samurai Knight Fever

Seeing how our society has become so completely rooted in unreal, media-driven fantasy (including our TV news programming), one begins to notice the weird insistence of our culture to reimagine everyone as a special effects-enhanced, wish-fulfilling superhero…...