Too hot. Too dry. Too many weapons. This world needs changing. But thatās too vague. After all, this world is already changing,…
Iām going to be honest ā I was prepared to be annoyed. There was an edgy, beautiful, but unwashed, teenagers vibe about…
The Doomsday Clock and Me Iām not a TikTok person. Iām too old. But when I finally ventured onto that popular but…
The tit-for-tat coded rhetorical threatsĀ would sound fantastical and John le CarreĢ-esque if they werenāt so real. In SeptemberĀ 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin…
The tit-for-tat coded rhetorical threats would sound fantastical and John le CarreĢ-esque if they werenāt so real. In September 2022, Russian President…
When I was growing up, there was a parody of an old-fashioned public announcement tacked to the wall of our kitchen that…
Itās hot and hazy as July rolls around. Growing up in the Baltimore swamplands, we used to say, āItās not the heat,…
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