Beyond the Rhetoric

It’s easy to fall into a routine and just about life’s business in a matter of fact kind of way. We all have our responsibilities and we all have our bills to pay. At the same time, I think all of us feel a yearning to have a greater impact on this planet. We want [...]

“I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind… At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, [...]

Real Steel (2011) With an absurdly silly premise like this, you can’t help but to feel like the people behind this movie are playing a practical joke on the world. Strangely enough, though, Real Steel is mildly thoughtful, offering depth, humor, and plenty of robot-on-robot action. Yes, it’s easy to say that Real Steel is [...]

Even though I’ve been a professional freelance writer for a number of years now, even a number of my closest friends don’t really understand what I do and how it all works. They hear about me getting “review samples” in the mail for various electronics and they wonder how that process works… and how I [...]

Another month has come and gone. The leaves are changing colors. The breeze in the air is just a little chillier than it was yesterday. And now we’re ready to turn to the next page with today’s speedlink. But before we do, we take a look a couple days back with Buzz Bishop. He’s noticed [...]