Despite my wavering ambivalence of Kim Stanley Robinson's work, I continue to read his books. I purchased New York 2140 from the West E...

Mom, Dad, and Sean, summer of 1976 or possibly 1977 at the Suwanee River campground near Leaf Rapids I only lived in Leaf Rapids for seven y...

I'll say this about generative AI tools; if nothing else, they're handy for creating portraits of Dungeons & Dragons characters....

Back in the mid-80s, Sean posed for a photograph while holding a jack-o-lantern up in front of his face to make himself look like he had a p...

 

A film with tremendous integrity, All the Right Moves (Michael Chapman, 1983) puts skewed cultural priorities into grim perspective. It...

Lynn Parramore of the Institute for New Economic Thinking delves into the shadowy work of James Buchanan , who she identifies as one of the...

If I had a trillion dollars (oh, if I had a trillion dollars..!), I'd build a funky corporate headquarters on a lush Pacific island, po...

Earlier this morning I had my car filled with gas at Domo, one of the few service station chains that still employs people that pump gas an...

I found this unopened pack of cards in our board game closet; it's a legacy of my parents. The cards came with one of those giant rec...

Back when Sylvia and I first started dating she introduced me to The Shield , a cop drama with a twist: rather than follow the exploits of t...

In my  first post about our trip to Mexico , I touched on the private misgivings Sylvia and I shared regarding the morality of the tourist...

Entrance to the Gran Bahia Principe Tulum, Mexico. Many of my friends visited Mexico years ago, but not until this month did I have the ...

Having allowed our collection of empty soda bottles, cans and milk cartons to build up for several months, I decided that today would be a g...

Originally published in The Peak , Volume 13, Number 7 July 1997 The End of Work by Jeremy Rifkin Tarcher/Putnam The End of Work is...

I graduated from the University of Alberta in 1991, during the last recession. Good jobs were hard to come by. For three years, I delivered ...

While re-reading my old Superman comics, I came across this panel from Action Comics #670, published back in 1991, during the last recessio...