America
One day, when I was a child, it occurred to me that there’s no way to know, without a doubt, that anyone else in my life was actually real. What if they were all robots? What if they were all aliens? What if this was all just some sort of a game, or a dream, [...]
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I don’t trust anyone anymore. I was thinking about this during last night’s Republican presidential debate, which I didn’t watch because I’ve been trained to believe that all politicians are liars and crooks. I was trained to believe this by politicians, mind you, but also by the media, whom the politicians themselves also believe are [...]
If you haven’t heard, the US Women’s soccer team is in the US Women’s World Cup semifinals. They got there by beating Brazil, traditionally one of the global powers in soccer, in a thrilling comeback that was settled by a shootout. It was, by all accounts, one of the most dramatic exhibitions in recent US [...]
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If, like me, you watched the Twilight Zone marathon on Syfy this past weekend, then you probably watched a lot of the Twilight Zone marathon. In fact, I found that no matter what else I had to do, I always found an excuse to watch “just one more” episode… and then another… and another. So [...]
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