A person who is considered a failure or nonachiever “Melanie wouldn't be dating aloserlike him. Besides, he's not her type.” Noun ▲ An object, person or endeavor in a state of failure “After five minutes of Man of La Mancha, it was obvious that the movie was aloser.” ...
Dinner was canceled, and I was never asked to write a dot-com story again. Tech rebounded faster than expected. After the all-consuming catastrophe of 9/11, attention for tech news was in short supply. And that, ironically, was when the tech world got really interesting. In October...
“But when we drew Middlesbrough in the next round, I was left out of the team, which was a bit of achoker.” Noun ▲ A long article of jewelry that is worn around the neck or other body part Noun ▲ A thick rope of wire or hemp used for construction, mooring ships, and towing...
For example, a family of two working adults and two kids: The household income is $200,000. They bought a house and stretch to make the mortgage payments. They bought nice cars and have to make payments. Their kids cost all kinds of money, and it adds up, and they’re spending every...
Due to a recent review backlog we have not been actively soliciting film reviewers; as a result, much recent SF media is still available for reviewing. If there is a film you are interested in reviewing, please contact gerry.canavan@marquette.edu and let him know the name of the film and...
After decades of constant turmoil, the latest chapter in the conflict of Afghanistan took place as the Taliban overran the country’s capital in the wake of the withdrawal of US forces and the implosion of the Western-backed Afghan government. This outcome is being characterised as dramatic becau...
“The building won’t just be valueless — it will be a catastrophe for the town, because it will have to be demolished,” Eldredge told me in 2020. “And the net cost for that, after salvage, is probably three to five times the city’s annual...
I’ve been pondering this Fourth Turning in articles since its spectacular onset in September 2008, with the Wall Street/Federal Reserve initiated global financial implosion. The description above is apt, as this ongoing two-decade long storm gains intensity and our freedoms, liberties and rights ...
the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few results in economic implosion because the 99 percent can’t afford to buy anything the 1 percent has to sell. The United States is turning into a nation of 1099 workers who eke out a living driving cars, renting rooms and running errands...
Still, Sokolin wouldn’t be surprised to see more implosions of this sort, given that DeFi is about committing financial assets on a potentially perpetual, decentralized network: “I would expect multiple periodic collapses within the DeFi space, but hope that their magnitude and impact — think...