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Untitled Online Dating Podcast
Online dating is the worst, right? Well, maybe not the worst, but it’s not all rainbows and lollipops, either. Except maybe grindr. Or so I’ve heard. Anyway, this week, I present a podcast that’s an adapted and updated version of an … Continue reading
Posted in General Culture and News, Podcasts
Tagged Bumble, eHarmony, General Culture and News, Hinge, Humor, Match, OKCupid, Online Dating, Personal, Podcasts, Reviews, Storytelling, Tinder
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Flirting with the End of the World
In my second run at a storytelling podcast, I thought I’d shift gears and shoot for something more historical than personal. I tackle a crucial but probably underreported event that arguably affected just about every single person on the planet. … Continue reading
Posted in General Culture and News, History, Podcasts
Tagged Cold War, History, Podcasts, Ronald Reagan, Soviet Union, Stanislav Petrov, Storytelling, The 1980s, USSR
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Untitled Online Dating Article
I say every year around birthday time that I permit myself one post that actually relates to some aspect of my life. This is a break from my usual, ironclad rule. I think it’s incontrovertible fact that everyday people blogging … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, General Culture and News, Reviews
Tagged Commentary, eHarmony, General Culture and News, Hinge, Humor, Match, OKCupid, Online Dating, Personal, Reviews, Tinder
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Time to Bury Academia?
The signs of the institutional terminal illness of the American university are increasingly plentiful. The stories out of Missouri and Yale and a half-dozen other places in recent months might be easily dismissed as the grumblings of an entitled generation—and they … Continue reading
Best of 2015
A move, the first full year of a new job, and increasingly demanding writing responsibilities further compromised my ability to generate content for this website on a regular basis. However, I did managed to write 25 pieces. This year also … Continue reading
The Age of Totalitolerance
Much evil may be committed in the name of “justice” or “equality” or, ironically, “freedom.” All of us believe in some version of those precepts. Thus, to oppose a strain of totalitarianism that gallops into town under a banner bearing the … Continue reading
The Mob Goes Trophy Hunting
I don’t hunt and — at the risk of losing my “Real American” bona fides — I also don’t own a firearm. In fact, I have never pulled the trigger on anything more powerful than a pellet gun. I can’t drive … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, General Culture and News
Tagged Animals, Cecil the Lion, Commentary, General Culture and News, Hunting, Justice, Mobs, PETA, Social Media, Wildlife
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Memory Hole or Bottomless Pit?
Down, down the memory hole we go. Where we stop, nobody knows. I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. Despite growing up in the capital of the Confederacy, and later attending Washington & Lee (as in “Robert E.”) University, I … Continue reading
Is Dylann Roof America Personified?
The horrific, racially motivated murder spree by Dylann Roof also served as a call to action for those who see the awful events of Wednesday night as corroboration of their core beliefs about the poisonous nature of American culture. Briefly, … Continue reading
The Axis of Ego 
Let’s Look at Some Pictures of Puppies
2016 has been a rough year in nearly every way imaginable. I wish that I could say things are looking up. Yet, I find my customary optimism waning as even foreseeable events (particularly one in November) have the potential to … Continue reading →