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The United States Electoral College… Why keep it?
I don’t normally write about politics anymore, because it’s just too polarized a subject in this day and age. However, the overall lack of factual arguments in the current, heated online and media discussions about the United States Electoral College’s future, prompted me to research what exactly is going on. No time to read ALL …
Google Removes Fascism from its Dictionary
This afternoon, while looking at various textbook definitions for oppressive regime types, I noticed that the word Fascism returns no results whatsoever. Every other word, from Autocracy, via Despotism, to Totalitarianism is represented with a clear, concise definition. Fascism? Nope. Nothing at all… As far as Google Dictionary is concerned, the word doesn’t exist. This …
Godzilla Attacks Bethlehem!
A couple of days back I was reminded of something I did in the run-up to Christmas, 2015. At the time I couldn’t write about it publicly, for fear of discovery, so I posted about it in a private forum I frequent. It’s still as funny now as it was three years back so I …
The Walmartian Hurricane Scale
As you may or may not know, I travel a lot and a fair percentage of this traveling is done by car. Inevitably, when I’m on the road I do tend to frequent Walmart on a fairly regular basis. Because face it, Walmart is nothing if not consistent, and when you’re in a strange town …
On Facebook it’s Personal…
A couple of years back I created my Facebook account as a means of finally staying in touch with real-world family and friends during my constant travels. I’m not exactly sure what I was expecting to find, at that time, though I certainly wasn’t prepared for the kind of things I would encounter during my …
German – The Master Language
As some of you know (especially if you’ve visited the “About Me” page) I am German by birth, though I moved to Canada when I was fifteen. And while I’ve now been away from Zhe Fazherland for three and a half decades, I can safely say “You can take the boy out of Germany, but …
Most of you won’t reshare this…
Over the past few months I’ve seen a growing number of posts on social media, challenging/shaming followers into sharing religious or political ideologies with increasingly passive/aggressive statements. Common variants include such gems as “All y’all ain’t gonna share this, ’cause you’ze ain’t real Christians.” or “This li’l kitty’s gonna be boiled alive, but you won’t reshare, ’cause you …
Edgar Allan Poe Slays Journalists!
…which brings me quite neatly to the point of this post. Headlines must be sensational to fulfill their purpose. 175 years have passed since Edgar Allan Poe penned the above passage in his sequel to ‘The Murders of the Rue Morgue‘. And yet his words still ring as true in the 21st Century as they did in the …
Happy Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe…
On January 19th, 1809, one of the most mysterious and misunderstood figures in English literary history was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Orphaned before his third birthday, Edgar Poe lost both parents to tuberculosis and was subsequently raised by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia. It is the adoption of this family’s surname alongside his own, which …