Truth: in 1000 words or less by Steven A. Craig Let’s Start a Sessions If I was initially terrified of what a Trump presidency might mean for this great nation, I must acknowledge that those fears have subsided. Since he has taken the reins of the executive branch, I have found something far more troublesome to […]
How To Make Your Kid Think You’re Cool
How To Make Your Kid Think You’re Cool This may be hard for some of you to believe, but I wasn’t always this cool. Fact is, back when I was in high school, I was what the cool kids like to call a “nerd”. I played Dungeons and Dragons, I was pudgy and unathletic, I […]
Put Down the Camera
Put Down the Camera Well, the holiday season has come and gone, and hopefully you got everything you wanted for Christmas. I know my son did. In what I have to assume will be his last year believing in Santa Claus (c’mon, at some point, he is going to realize that even the Flash couldn’t […]
We Is Getting Dumber
We Is Getting Dumber Are we human beings continuing to evolve as a species or have we reached a tipping point, a moment in history in which the equilibrium of nature shifts and we start perilously plunging down the backside of the course of human history without any hope of return? Or to put it […]
The NSA is Watching
The NSA is Watching I’m not entirely sure why, buy Yahoo seems quite concerned about my well-being. Every few weeks or so, they send me an unsolicited note suggesting that I change my email password for security purposes. For some reason, the prescient minds behind my email provider believe my password to be hopelessly inadequate […]
Alternative Facts for Your Alternative Lifestyle
Alternative Facts for Your Alternative Lifestyle I must admit that as much as I do not like Kellyanne Conway, I honestly feel for her and admire her resolve. Let’s face it: it can’t be easy having to verbally defend a con man who spews more indefensible horse shit than a John Deere tractor. It leaves […]
A Reason For Optimism
A Reason For Optimism Have we really gotten to the point that politicians seeking to run for office in November 2018 are already announcing their intentions? Well, that may be maddening as all get out, but you’ll have to excuse me if I give a bit more leeway to the most recent candidate to jump […]
A Brewery By Any Other Name Just Isn’t the Same
A Brewery By Any Other Name Just Isn’t the Same Believe it or not, I still play hockey for an adult rec team in Breckenridge, Colorado that is sponsored by Breckenridge Brewery. I do this despite the fact that I moved ninety minutes away from Breck down to the flatlands of Denver nearly three […]
This Is How the World Ends
This is the Way the World Ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. –T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men” If you are unfamiliar with T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men”, a haunting masterpiece of 20th-century […]