Dispatches – Save a Job, Save the World
These days, while wading into the great American slog, there are many opportunities to overhear and even participate in compelling conversations on the state of our nation and the world,…
Tag: apocalypse
Think about it, AJ
Looking at “Pizzagate” and 9/11 from the conspiracy perspective.
What’s this about political butts?
John Wyndham was correct that we are fucked as a species: the seas will rise, and plants will hunt us for food and sport. But I’ve read this sentence from…
Don’t lose your PC badge in the Apocalypse
It was an interesting coincidence that The Simpsons aired their “survivalist” episode “Homer Goes to Prep School” the same night The Walking Dead was wrapping up its third season. Actual…
Zombie Supreme Court
Over the years, we as a culture have expounded much on the impending Zombie Apocalypse. But one consequence I fear we have not fully appreciated is the effect on the…
Mr. Spaceship
In the short story “Mr. Spaceship,” published in 1953 in a publication called Imagination (according to my Citadel Twilight collection, Volume 1), Philip K. Dick put a human brain into…
The Living Structure Meme
If you want to prepare for a new and illustrious career for future, I would recommend bioengineering, since future ships and buildings will be living things. Paolo Bacigalupi’s “A Pocketful for…
In the Financial Apocalypse…
It is good to know we can shift to an Egret Economy and trade in feathers should Congress (i.e., the Republicans) decide they are tired of success and drive the…
Two Paragraphs Abandoned in “The Blue Caves of Austin”
There is a dangerous appeal to being the last. Maybe we do violence to the future so that the present won’t outlive us. Then perhaps the lack of visitors from…