Omigod

I did it. Man, this year was hard. Read more...

The Unicorn Challenge

On Facebook, a friend of a friend suggested that it would be a challenge to get Cleverbot to admit to being a unicorn, like it did in this video. So I decided I’d give it a shot. These are the results. User: Tell me, Cleverbot. Are you a unicorn? Cleverbot: No. User: I’m supposed to... Read more...

Obama Speaks to His Staff

President Obama is nothing if not a genius speaker. This is one of my favorite speeches of his, performed in front of his staff after his successful re-election. His gratefulness and respect towards his staff shows just the kind of person he is. http://youtu.be/pBK2rfZt32g Read more...

The Death of Traditional America

Bill O’Reilly said that the reason Mitt Romney lost was because there is no longer a traditional America. Americans wants stuff, and Obama is going to give it to them. On Tuesday night, I posted an article explaining why the Republicans lost the election. Many reputable journalists posted... Read more...

Four More Years

Obama won the 2012 presidential election yesterday evening by a larger margin than anyone (except Nate Silver) expected: 303 electoral votes to Romney’s 203. And this ignoring the incoming Florida electoral votes, which promise to give Obama an even greater margin of win. Basically, the... Read more...

"The End of Callum Raynes"

Everything dies. Callum’s mother had, slowly, of pneumonia. At least that’s what the doctor had called it. For Callum, dying of pneumonia meant coughing up blood and phlegm, struggling at every moment to keep from choking on it. It was a futile struggle; inevitably, she’d drowned in her... Read more...

"Chemistry"

Adam Levy hated change. There was a reason the morning news called him the Immovable Object. But the economy was bad, his school budget had been cut, and the former middle school chemistry teacher had been laid off. His second job–saving innocents and stopping criminals–didn’t... Read more...

Stormborn: Chapter 1

Thelonius Aeryn Tamsin was born under the enraged eye of an intense electrical storm. There was a time when that would have been recognized as a sign that this child was something special. Not today. Today, it is generally believe that storms and childbirths are unrelated events, and when they... Read more...