“I remember working for trucking companies who aggressively sought acquisitions while reducing employee benefits, and laying off workers all at the same time. All of them eventually declared bankruptcy, closed their doors, and reopened under a new name. Now Medium seems to be doing the same.” — Earlier today I left the following comment on this post announcing layoffs by Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine,

“Captain Stardust,” engineer Dotty Montgomery shouts over the com system, “We’ve been boarded!” — Continued from The Final Frontier, The adventurers of the USS Starship, Donald Trump. The Setup In our last episode, Captain Twiggy Stardust and her crew aboard the USS Starship, Donald Trump narrowly escaped being dropped due to insufficient ratings. “Damn the network,” Captain Stardust complained. “If they want ratings I’ll give them…

“Have you existed a part of a species that is hated by every person in the world and thought to yourself, I should become one of them and take up their struggle.” — Have you ever taken the time to step out of your own misery and look at how the rest of the world lives, their desires, their dreams, their misery? Have you considered the possibility, the notion that you might be able to become them for a time, perhaps for a…

“For hours the two of them struggled, screamed, and cried as they fought to free themselves from…” — Once upon a time there were these two ‘possums, Gregory and Jeffrey who were the best of friends. …

“If that giant was still around he never showed his face in the truck stop when I was there. And yes, I was glad.” — Yet another adventure from the daze of my youth. In Part 2, I learned the true definition of fear when I narrowly escaped death by a giant. I’m linking all the parts together, so if you missed the beginning you can catch up by clicking on Part 1. “If you…

Julius Caesar — Excerpted from The History of Wackemall. 49 BC. It was during the crossing of the Rubicon that Alfrado Julius Caesar took charge of the Second Maniple when noting that the "wackemall had been cast". Like the rest of the Legionnaires that day, he knew the crossing of the river under…