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We Love (He)L(l).A: We (Used To) Love It!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT7aFLAS4ZI *... or at least we used to love L.A., given a recent news article describing the economic exodus from the City of Angels... Thanks Mayor Antonio "Failure" Villaraigosa…
Free Will & Grace

Upon my existential rethinking about my life (or with life in general), and the big "what-ifs," I've been in full sociological mode when it comes to identity politics, especially given last year's media circus best know…
Real world ballistics on shoot'em up movies & Rom-coms

At my current age of 33, I've been of the titular/aforementioned conclusion for 2 years or more, maybe a decade of the following: A) In the real world, firing multiple rounds of ammunition from a fully-automatic weapon-…
The First Casualties of Romance Are Always Children...

Since Valentine's Day is just a few weeks away, I've been channeling in my inner Kinji Fukasaku, regarding some old tabloid, news story I heard once back in the last decade, when Bridges of Madison County became the …
Romance & Friends With Benefits, In A Welfare State

When I was watching a classic episode of History Channel's, Tales of The Gun (The Guns of The Third Reich episode), I was reminded of this little-known/appreciated fact that in spite of the fact that we won against Hitle…
A P.J. O' Rourke view of smut (hint: it's not what you're thinking) ;-)

Sometime ago, I came across a wikipedia stub on libertarian-conservative humorist/writer, P.J. O' Rourke, when he offers some of his finest, wittiest remarks on life. One of them involves (out of verbatim) the scientific…
Living like Leonard Shelby

Lately I've been feeling ever more adamant in encouraging my fellow brethren in Christ to watch Chris Nolan's Memento, primarily in part to help people question one's own interpretations of their own worldviews... or at …
The Last Sane Man in China

I've been reading up the current mental health crisis in mainland China lately, and how that is also the case with schizophrenia. Coupled with that, there's rampant suicide, and who knows what else waiting to …