I held a department meeting this week. I chose Stovehouse at lunchtime. I will do so again. I had to get rid of my second long beard ever. I’d love to grow one to the point that gravity overwhelms the curl, but I never get there. When it gets long enough to start thinking about … Read more
As part of my university curriculum, I studied media bias extensively. With a degree in communication arts, I took courses like mass media, history of rhetoric, and persuasion. The largest media event while I was in college was Desert Storm. The web wasn’t yet a factor, but we’d had news channels like CNN for a … Read more
(No spoilers.) The first time I ever seriously considered the potential consequences of a brain transplant, I was in the eighth grade. It was 1983. I knew it could never work, because you couldn’t look in the mirror expecting to see yourself and have it be someone else. You’d go crazy. The end. Of course, … Read more