Viral zombies are terrifying because they're not only a plausible concept. They're a theoretical possibility -- one that's based on an observed and measured phenomenon.
Read more →A brief exchange about morality and nature between a devout believer and an atheist.
Read more →Anniversaries are a funny thing. So what? The Earth has gone around the sun one more time. What's that supposed to mean?
Read more →So I’ve just published a new book called Portraits: Short Stories About No One in Particular and it’s available through the Kindle Store for only $0.99. It’s a collection of short stories and features everything I’ve published to date in the short fiction section of this site plus two new stories. Well, to be honest, one...
Read more →"Write drunk; edit sober." Ernest Hemingway said that. And he knew a thing or two about the written word.
Read more →Balconies are important in Montreal culture. When you only have a few warm months a year, it's nice to go outside without leaving your place.
Read more →A recent study has found that the majority of people just aren’t smart enough for democracy to work. As Live Science reports, research: shows that incompetent people are inherently unable to judge the competence of other people, or the quality of those people’s ideas. For example, if people lack expertise on tax reform, it...
Read more →So another graven-image-of-a-dead-Christian-guy-day has come and gone. Say what you will about consumerism running amok of the holiday ethos, but the paganism had first dibs on that long before the growth economy was a twinkle in capitalism’s eye. Hell, most of these vapid holidays were originally just bloodthirsty pagan orgies that got rebranded when...
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