Beyond the Rhetoric

For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Life is all about perspective and the above quote from Shakespeare’s Hamlet sums up this notion quite well. Realistically, all events in life, all happenings, are absolutely neutral. Even when you are hit with the worst of circumstances, there is a silver [...]

It’s time for another rousing speedlinking session here on Beyond the Rhetoric. Each week, I try to feature some great blog posts from around the ‘net, so if you want to be mentioned in an upcoming edition of What’s Up Wednesdays, you’ll want to keep me in the loop. You can either do this via [...]

What do dot com moguls do for fun when they’re not scarfing down on Vietnamese noodles? They wow the crowd with their toy guitar and drum-playing skills, of course! On Sunday afternoon, a group of us went over to Greg’s place for a rousing session of Rock Band. For some strange reason, Stephen seemed very [...]

Just as carpenters have hammers and doctors have stethoscopes, freelance writers have a few tools of their own as well. While the first writing tools that come to mind are usually things like pens, pads of paper, and a laptop computer, quite possibly the most important tools of the trade are not physical items at [...]

Easily one of my favorite podcasts is Ask Palpatine. Essentially, you get a puppet version of Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars fame answer a series of questions from his readers. The same people that do Ask Palpatine also do other puppet shows, including a very bad impersonation of Stephen Colbert. For this week’s episode of [...]