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Three Free Cool Tools for Writers
For those of you who - like me - make your living with words, here are three free cool tools I use that have helped me as a writer and a thinker. I want my writing to be more clear and more direct, and these tools make it easier to get there. And all of these are my favorite...
Improving Criminal Justice?
This is the Justice Problem Law enforcement and the criminal justice system treat crime as a profit center, rather than as an obligation to make sure justice is served. I can hear you exclaim, "You're nuts!" Perhaps I am. But consider... If someone steals my car, gets caught,...
Grief: The Irrational Clue to Humanity’s Origins
Grief. It makes no sense from an evolutionary standpoint. When we suffer loss, we rage at the cruelty of fate and grieve for an imagined future that will never be. Why? When our dreams shatter, when we fail ourselves and each other, when shit happens, when the universe rubs us...
Purplevania: A Parable of Tolerance, Dance & Death
The people of Purplevania, more than any country on earth, loved ballroom dance. The waltz. The tango. The fox-trot and the quick-step. The paso doble and the rumba. Year after year, the greatest ballroom dancers in the world came from Purplevania. Yet all was not sunshine and...
Artist or Accountant?
Do the Scales Balance? A guy driving back from a fishing trip is killed when a rock thrown from an overpass crashes through his windshield. Shit happens. An otherwise-healthy 32-year-old mother of 5 small children contracts breast cancer and dies within 4 months of the...
“Pattern Recognition” by William Gibson
Neuromancer is apparently the William Gibson book I should have read 20 years ago. I didn't. And still haven't. But I did just finish his Pattern Recognition. Quick impressions: It is - on the one hand - unlike anything I have ever read. On the other, it is a fairly typical but...