I’ve been thinking alot about a parable* I heard in sixth grade (yes, my memory sometimes extends that far backwards in time.) The teacher introduced a scenario, in which you are hypothetically stranded on a desert island, inhabited by two tribes: Truth-tellers, and Liars. As you are seeking safety/rescue, you come to a [...]
I haven’t really followed, or paid attention to the plight of Joe Darby, the poor soldier who blew the whistle on Abu-Ghraib a few years back, but I noticed Anderson Cooper interviewed him on 60 minutes this past Sunday. It seems that pretty much everyone he’s ever known now hates him and looks down on [...]
This test will help determine how cool you are:
What is a gnargasm, you ask? It’s the decided appellation of our annual winter skiing & snoboarding extravaganza, which has in years past, taken me to locales like Whistler, B.C., Park City, UT, and Winter Park, CO. Alright, why gnargasm? Well, gnar is defined thusly:
A shortened version of the word gnarly, meaning high [...]
