Tora! Tora! Tora!

I hit the "intermission" of this fantastic film and figured I'd pop something up here about it that really hit me while watching the first half. (Intermissions, by the way, for you young pups in the audience, was something that was done to allow bathroom breaks, snack runs and such during longer films back in…

Sad Puppies, GRRM…and the whole HUGO Awards mess

A response to George R. R. Martin from the author who started Sad Puppies | Monster Hunter Nation. ...AND an excellent response to this whole Sad Puppies Hugo Award mess from the guy who started the whole ball rolling. As a mostly libertarian (objectivist) type person, you probably can guess which side I'm on. I…

Are we not Entertained?

Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed participating and watching sports and entertainment since I was a kid. That said, about a year or so after 9/11, I started to notice something in our (American) culture that began to disturb me. What enraged a nation to war just a short sixty years beforeĀ  (not just the…