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One of the first things first-time visitors to New England notice is its compact size: A crow flying 100 miles from almost any treetop outside of Maine will end up in the next state, if not Canada. But map distances bear absolutely no relation to travel time, thanks to the mountain ranges pitched up across [...]

Editor’s note: this blog entry has been edited for content and formatted to fit this screen.  Viewer discretion is advised.I’m a huge Battlestar Galactica fan currently experiencing a painful withdrawal (damn you, summer hiatus! damn you all to hell!! [/Heston mode]).  The show gives my brain everything it needs: good old-fashioned sci fi escapism; good-looking, [...]

The other night the spirit moved me to google the word “tarot”, click the first link in the results list, and have my cards read. The cybernetic fortune teller, prior to laying out the cards, requested that I enter a few words regarding the nature of the question for which I was seeking cosmic guidance. [...]

…on the night of February 27, 1933, a Berlin fire station received an alarm call that the Reichstag building, the assembly location of the German Parliament, was ablaze… Hitler forced President Hindenburg to pass an ‘emergency decree’ suspending all articles that guaranteed freedom and liberty. Hitler’s police were then allowed to seize property and take [...]

[Apologies in advance if this blog entry is too preachy or let-it-all-hang-outy; feel free to surf on over to The Onion if it becomes too much for you.] “St. Patrick was a gentleman who through strategy and stealth, drove all the snakes from Ireland, Here’s toasting to his health; But not too many toastings lest you lose yourself [...]