Monthly Archives: February 2018

It’s hard to sit down and write this piece. I’m not tired. In fact, I’m perfectly awake. I slept well. I’m not hungry. I’m not even all that distracted, which...
Does kowtowing on social media make your company stronger? It’s a weird question to start a post titled “Political Philosophy,” but it’s a question that I’ve been asking today. Why...
In order to play Dungeons & Dragons, you need two kinds of people. The first is the Dungeon Master (“DM”), who sets up the world that the second group, the...
So, here’s the deal. Animusic is almost objectively awesome. Hopefully, you’ve already come across some of their work out on the wild web. Here’s what’s probably their most famous piece,...
If there’s anything I know about writing movie reviews, it’s that they probably shouldn’t be written while the movie’s afterglow is still washing over you. Cars 3 was so good...
I’m becoming increasingly interested in bad journalism. I wouldn’t go as far to say that it was dangerous or even especially intentional if only to avoid the hyperbole for which...
There’s a scene in Wall-E, the Pixar movie, where a ship returning to Earth has to plow through a nearly impassible field of likely-defunct satellites in order to land. I...
I’m nervous. I don’t get nervous that often. It’s mostly an emotion that happens when I’m in a crowd, washing over me in ineffable waves. I don’t know what bad...
Just what is a genre? After discovering, once again, that online dictionaries are almost entirely useless for answering a question with any degree of subtlety, I found myself returning to...
Can democracies make the world a better place? The Founding Fathers seemed to think so. In fact, they may be some of the most optimistic, rational, idealists who ever lived....