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Last week, I blogged about a 13-year-old kid who became the first person in 34 years to actually defeat the Nintendo Entertainment System’s version of Tetris. They played so long, in fact, that the game couldn’t keep up with them, and the game glitched out.  Now that’s a hell of an achievement. And as the story about…

The Harrad Experiment was a 1973 motion picture about a fictional college whose curricula espoused free love and partner-swapping. I remember seeing it during HBO’s late-night broadcasts, where you could see all the voyeuristic content right there in the comfort of your own living room. Holy crap, that’s a young Don Johnson in the film.  Anyway…

Every time I think Lauren Boebert’s shelf life has finally dried up, the Colorado Congresswoman continues to fester like a boil.  Let me explain. She barely won re-election in 2022 by a margin of less than 600 votes, and her 2022 opponent, Adam Frisch, looks to eclipse her in the 2024 general election. And considering Lauren…

It’s time for me to sit back, review my entire 2023 output, and see what blog posts I feel really stood out for the year. There were some great ones, there were some personal ones … but they were all part of what made this blog post what it is. And here we go. That’s a pretty…

Cait Corrain was on top of the world. Her debut novel, A Crown of Starlight, was scheduled to be published by Del Rey Books. It would receive national distribution and appear as a featured text in several subscription book clubs. And in the span of 48 hours, the book and its author was dropped by…

Whatever my WordPress blog host did to combat spam seems to have worked. My spam filter no longer has hundreds of poorly-written requests from bots and scammers. This is a good thing. However, apparently some people aren’t getting the message. I shall explain. A few months ago, I wrote about someone who created a fake…

So I need to relax before my big flight to San Antonio for the upcoming annular solar eclipse. I don’t fly as often as most people, but when I do fly, I do have some great stories – both good and bad. And if I’m going to remain calm about flying … let’s do this…

Imagine that someone you know, someone you’ve worked with, someone in your tertiary universe has just received a Nobel Prize. That’s huge. And of course, you’ll want to trumpet this news as loudly as possible. Heck, my alma mater, Hamilton College, can boast that Elihu Root, who graduated from Hamilton and would later serve as…

Let me check my MAGA Caucus Bingo card. Matt Gaetz … still trolling for underage girls with his Venmo account. Kevin McCarthy – proof that you can anagram the letters S P E N I and it would confirm that he neither has a “spine” nor a … yeah. Lauren Boebert – nope, I don’t…