Would you still love me if I was a girl?
When people professed to me that they loved someone, I used to ask them questions like “If that person killed someone, would you still love…
Corey King
Everyday we’re playing a futile game
Imagine you’ve finally gotten your chance to play a giant game of Monopoly where there are 100 players. Imagine you were only able to begin…
Fried Brains and Sam
When I arrived at work this morning there was a note taped to my control panel which read: The end is nearer now than ever….
Let’s give compassion another go
Despite my efforts, I am not a great person, or even likely a good person. Hopefully, I’m not a bad person, at least not by…
Fried Brains and Sam
Poof. Vanished. It used to amaze me. Poof. Vanished. It used to excite me — the whole magic of the universe — how there are…
Experiments in a fertile reality
When we married, Joan and I agreed to an open marriage. After several years neither of us had acted on that agreement. It was our…
Fried brains and Sam:
Natural disasters are anything but entertaining, from my point of view. I end up with a week’s worth of congestion and am always forced to…
Buying into the Bionic man
Arrays of technologies — from robotics to bioengineering — are beginning to converge, and this convergence is destined to have profound effects on our future….
In the end, it’s all about love
I often witnessed two human males, bound by circumstance, sitting together on an old wooden rocking chair. An heirloom from a bygone era when men…
The need to continue our journey into space
Though I’m not the first one to come to the conclusion that, at the end of the day, we’re screwed if we stick with Earth,…