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It is a strange week, so that could be why it affected me so deeply when I heard that Alan Rickman, who played Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films, has died. He was a prolific actor with a [...]

Last night, I went on WhiteHouse.gov and queued up the historic remarks the president had made earlier about the simple gun safety measures he was passing by Executive Order in the face of [...]

I have laughed along with my liberal folk about the ill-conceived occupation of the federal lands by the “militia” (who apparently forgot to pack snacks) in Oregon in protest for the [...]

I listened as my two seemingly normal-sounding friends compared their “doomsday stash.” They were telling me mostly to get a rise out of me (apparently both their kits include [...]

You know Skynet. It’s the artificial intelligence that gains self-awareness in the Terminator movies and then sends a cyborg Arnold Schwarzenegger back in time to kill the leader of the [...]

Many of us feel the need to make broad proclamations about the year ahead and the year’s start. There shall be weight loss. There shall be spin class. There shall be organized closets and [...]