There’s no question that following WWII Communism was a legitimate threat to the United States. Global positioning of military, spies on both sides, nuclear domination was at stake. It was a scary time. Intertwined with the anger and fear was a pernicious thread within that, in response to the national…

It’s called a narrative frame. For over two hundred years, the narrative frame of America has been that of men imbued with a sense of manifest destiny, visionaries tired of British subjugation who, borrowing from everyone from the British to the ancient Greeks, forged a system of governance for all…

It all started in 1938. Spelling Bee was the first radio and television broadcast of a show that used ordinary people as the fodder for entertainment. …

I’m not entirely certain that this is my story to tell. I can’t refrain from writing it as the experiences are searing scars in my flesh and they are there to see. If I’m stepping over some sort of line, I offer my apologies in advance. Synopsis: Meet Don Hall…

Once you take the time to strip the vitriol and stupidity from Twitter (a task of almost Sisyphusian effort) the debates online about whether to continue to practice shelter-in-place or start to re-open businesses in the face of the very distinct probability of a spike in COVID-19 cases are primarily…

The idea is that with age comes experience and with experience comes wisdom. That’s the idea, anyway. I am a huge Survivor nerd. I’ve watched every episode of every season with relish. Yes, it is acknowledged that it is reality television and is highly curated to tell a story of…

A few years ago, I found myself playing a video game on my iPad called This War of Mine. The game, inspired by the 1992–96 Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War, differs from most war-themed video games by focusing on the civilian experience of war rather than frontline combat…

NEWSFLASH: The Coronavirus doesn’t give a shit how you feel about Trump or Biden or Bernie or how much stuff you hoard from the shelves of CostCo. It doesn’t give a flying fuck about your feelings about pronouns, Medicare for All, immigration, or your vaunted opinions on privilege. I’m not…

In John Carpenter’s The Thing, once the creature is discovered to infect and become one of the skeleton crew in the Antarctic, it is the paranoia that ultimately does them all in. Carriers is about a viral pandemic accompanied by all the social breakdown that seems to join one. Four…