Opinion Piece
–In the early ’80s, I read No Exit and The Stranger back-to-back, sitting cross-legged on my bedroom floor, somewhere between Atari and…
Loophole: A Philosophy of Exceptions
–The man who rolled through the stop sign drove on, unaware that his small rebellion had been logged and studied. Yet his…
Loophole: A Philosophy of Exceptions
–Above the world, in a place that was neither sky nor heaven, the philosophers gathered. They had no bodies, no robes, no…
LaDeDa
––a man misnamed by a drunk registrar becomes a state mascot, a saint, and finally a god. I. The Error of Birth…
Daily Prompts
–Picture me with a pitchfork in one hand and a dog-eared copy of Virgil’s Georgics in the other. You demand to know…
The Skeptic’s Cosmic Carnival
–It was the first and perhaps last annual CERN Comedy Festival. Originally a desperate gambit by physicists to halt the inexplicable cosmic…
The Skeptic’s Cosmic Carnival
–Dr. Ellie Katz adjusted her glasses and squinted at the equations sprawled across the whiteboard. For weeks, the physics community had been…
The Skeptic’s Cosmic Carnival
–It started quietly, subtly, as all paradigm shifts do. They called it the Sagan Virus, named for the voice of wonder and…
–“The Thing With Three Legs, Red Eyes, and No Business Being Real”. Or: How One Night in Illinois Made an Entire Town…
–“The Bioluminescent Terror of the Coal Shaft” Or: The Flying Horned Monster That Terrified an Iowa Town for Five Days, Took No…
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