Monthly Archives: October 2018
Television: Ghosted
Frequent readers of this blog know that I’ve been watching less and less TV every year, as I find fewer and fewer programs that interest me. But, in one of those late-night moments where I was too tired to do any work, but not tired enough to go to bed, I browsed my cable company’s […]
Magazine: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, round 2
I’m out in the desert again, this time to talk to an old guy who, it is said, is the wisest of all the wise men. His run-down trailer says “meth lab” more than “wise man”, but I figure that’s just part of his marketing shtick. I remind myself of this again when he opens […]
On Fingernail Clippers and the Global Balance of Power
I’ve read a number of books which are accounts of people who escaped from North Korea, and I plan to read more of them. Maybe I need to be reminded that my life is actually pretty good. Maybe I need to be reminded of what happens when a government achieves absolute power. Maybe it has […]
Planetary Defense Command 