Toys Are Not for Children Stanley H. Brassloff Night of the Cobra Woman Andrew Meyer Stigma David E. Durston Beware! The Blob Larry Hagman Sweet Sugar Michel Levesque Man with Two Heads, The Andy Milligan Blood Freak Steve Hawkes, Brad F. Grinter ...
In other words, the big idea from the foreign policy experts is something they read about from the Reagan years that has no chance of working now. It is as if they are unaware of the sanctions war they launched two years ago that not only failed to crater the Russian economy but boomera...
So, I’m standing in the women’s restroom with the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Wicked Witch of the West. They were watching Mrs. Claus through the crack of the door of the bathroom stall. After she had evacuated her stomach, she needed to do the same for her bladder so was ...
These are signs of spiritual desperation, not far different from popping strange pills or trying to buy redemption through penance or indulgence. The fact that they are Eastern instead of Western means nothing. A fool is a fool, in Calcutta as well as Calgary, and no amount of new words an...
Irish people always have a few words and it comes back to them from their schooldays when they become immersed in the language again) or to keep their fluency going and improve on it. Then you have the Irish colleges as they are known where children or adults can go for a two week cou...
nails down rueful insights about cultivating high ambitions in cloistered times and tallies the ironies in striving for space in a future you otherwise fear and loathe. In other words, it’s about living one’s best possible life near the upper reaches (and below the radar) in the 21st cent...
“I am an adult,” she said in a low, clear voice, pouring all her strength into her words. “My mother holds no legal authority over my life. Whatever her contract with you may be, is void in all matters concerning my freedom, my life.” Then for the sake of propriety, she added...
arriving from Switzerland in the early part of the last century. A not uncommon story of arriving with a few clothes, a few coins, and a bible in hand. That final quarter though, well, that one has been here for a few centuries. Good guys becoming bad guys in the process of trying ...
As I left them, my mom walked me to the door. As we said our goodbyes, she put my thoughts into words. She had felt his loss today, like every day. And because of that, every day is a bad day automatically. Today was a bad day and a good day, and we have to get used to ...
an answer, and if they have to invent one to do it, well, dammit, they’ll invent one. They are next-word prediction engines and so they predict the next word. That’s it. That’s the tweet. There’s no understanding of the words they produce, or of the ideas those words compose...