Around 2003 or so, an old boss and I took a side-trip on the way to a meeting to the church he attended. He was a bit younger than me, a devout evangelical Christian, a youth pastor and a pretty decent guy. He knew I didn’t share his particular brand of faith (full disclosure – [...]
Agent Robinson walked casually to his desk. It was 8:17 in the morning and though he was early for work, he felt as if the bureau chief would mock him for another tardy morning. By the time he strolled into the office downtown, plenty of agents were already at work. The building always buzzed with [...]
Remember London’s call to its citizens to paw through each other’s trash, looking for suspicious materials? Or the numerous times in America politicians have told us in not so subtle ways to keep a watchful and suspicious eye on our neighbors? Now, thanks to the Illinois State Police, trash collectors have been deputized in the [...]
Newt Gingrich, like many other Americans on the far right, has a problem with Mosques, more specifically the planned Islamic community center near Ground Zero. This doesn’t come as a shock in the least, his reasoning (H/T Justin Elliott at Salon) is that there aren’t any churches in Saudi Arabia and also, New [...]
Perhaps you’ve heard about the writer who moved in next door to Sarah Palin? Apparently he is in the midst of some kind of scandalous tell all book about her and has taken up residence in her hometown in pursuit of stories.
Resorting to her characteristic histrionics, Palin immediately took to her [...]
In a move that will probably dog him for months to come, the President drew parallels between the BP oil disaster and 9/11. In an interview with Politico, Obama said “In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going [...]
Michael rode trains late at night when the city seemed quiet, when most of the waking world around him slept. There was a feeling then he could almost touch. He listened to the most unbearable music, unbearable by pop standards anyway. A cacophony of soundtracks from post apocalyptic 80’s movies mixed with [...]
“Do you know who I was? Nobody. Except on the day after, I was still alive. This nobody had a chance to be somebody.” Auntie Entity, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
Years of horror movies and video games have prepared me for just about every tragedy you could imagine, affording me a post-apocalyptic skill set that would [...]
It’s hard for some people to imagine the apocalypse, it wasn’t for him. Enter Nicolas, a man in his early 30s, with dark features and even darker thoughts. Humanity disgusted him, and he lived life with as little human interaction as possible. He worked his cubicle, rode the train, and slept in his studio apartment. [...]