I’m getting really annoyed with the idiots who constantly write ‘2morrow’ instead of ‘tomorrow’- or any of the various bad grammar forms that plague the internet in blog posts, message boards, and other digital media- like it’s perfectly normal and acceptable English. It’s not; and you’re a moron for thinking it...
Whether you love it or hate it, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart does a damn good job at pointing out the idiocy spewed from all points along the political spectrum. It’s not the fault of the writers of the show that the vast majority of that idiocy comes...
Welcome to 2013! The quest for knowledge of the paranormal goes forward into another year… James Stein is a Professor of Mathematics at California State University whose previous books include The Right Decision: A Mathematician Reveals the Secrets of Decision Theory and How Math Explains the World. In a book that was...
Alright, people, we get it. Geez! People are making so many apocalypse jokes, it’s as if there’s no tomorrow. So, this is what the apocalypse looks like? To me it looks like just another typical, boring day at work. (O.o)? Oh, shit! That’s it! We’ve all died and gone...
Censors and book burners are not relegated to the borders of the United States; neither is the torch of enlightenment, as it spreads across the globe amid several recent events centered on banned books. Read on and Share the Knowledge: http://bbark.deepforestproductions.com/column/2012/12/16/banned-books-awareness-the-freedom-to-read-is-a-global-issue/
The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, is an autobiographical memoir of Walls’ and her siblings’ unconventional and poverty-stricken upbringing at the hands of deeply dysfunctional parents. The book, published in 2005, pulls on the heartstrings of readers with its resonating and poignant topics; but the parents of a student...
The drama department at Los Medanos College began a production of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” on November 8th and their student newspaper, the LMC Experience, interviewed the director about the inspiration behind the project, including how it was a banned book. The interview mentioned my name...
Love them or hate them, Apple Inc. has received some heavy criticism in recent years for some pretty controversial issues including the alleged use of sweatshop labor, environmental destruction, and unethical business practices. It has been criticized by legal and business analysts for its hot-tempered legal policy of suing its...
**Happy Holidays, everyone. Enjoy this month’s issue of Pagan Pages magazine and, as always, another installment of my paranormal column, Across the Great Divide. This time I’m going to discuss the phenomenon of the Gray Lady apparition.** Most people mistakenly combine all apparitions under the blanket “ghost” moniker, or...
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is considered one of the “Great American Novels” and a literary classic- the Modern Library, for example, ranks it as the second best English-language novel of the 20th Century. However, as one might expect, this literary cornerstone is also a commonly challenged book,...