This post was triggered by a story this week by True contributor Alexander Cohen, who properly wrote the slug (story title) in the form of a question: What Is Ignorance? “Matthew 6:9 says, ‘Our Father, which art in heaven,’ this‘be thy name.’” That was one of the $200 answe...
Whether a boss, an elected official, or an entire company or industry, the character of our leaders is always under a public microscope. Transgressions may be headlined on the nightly news for all the world to see or quietly whispered between co-workers around the water fountain. At either e...
Ed Brush wrote a recommendation for me to the Honors Program in Classics and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, and I was accepted. It was a perfect path into the academic world. We had small classes and excellent professors; the standard at that time being that the first two years of...
“Well,maybe.” The Doctor clapped his hands and strode over to the console, flicking the first lever his fingers brushed against without even looking at it. “Right! Edinburgh. New Year’s Eve, 1999. Fireworks! Haggis! Aaaand…” He span on his heels, and the bottom of the kilt billo...
What I’m trying to say is that’s why I’m telling this story. When a dream like that slithers out of my unconscious and into the real world I get a bit jumpy. That’s how Karen was able to affect me so much in the dungeon. Oh wow, as soon as I wrote that I felt compelle...
on the other hand, does not manifest itself in such spectacular fashion. Cold fury is focused, calculated, unspectacular; it takes it’s time, waiting for the optimum moment. Cold fury usually can’t be appeased, once unleashed. As I wrote some time ago, regarding theSan Francisco Committee...
"Just Rogue?" The Doctor quips. Then — just like that — they go outside together — where they Murder, She Wrote onto the duchess's corpse. which kicks conflict into gear as they openly suspect each other of the crime. But oh how they already finish each other's accusations!
"We are committed to staying at the forefront of these developments to ensure the protection of our members," wrote the spokesperson. A spokesperson for Boy Scouts of America shared the organization'ssocial media guidelines, which notes that videos and images of Scouts on social media platforms ...
“Church policy and practice on this issue was firmly articulated by L. Ron Hubbard in 1967, when he wrote the following: ‘It has never been any part of my plans to regulate or attempt to regulate the private lives of individuals. Whenever this has occurred, it has not resulted in any...
the upcoming saint was sent to the gallows for execution anyway by the cold, hard-hearted Claudius the Second. Valentine, before he was executed, wrote and passed a short note on to the jailor's lovely daughter, the first written Valentine, so the story goes, to be written in the world...