Write It Already!
By Audie Cockings
My mom introduced me to storytelling at a young age. She’d concoct stories that would go on for months, my little brother and I listening intently, fixed in place. In grad school, I may not have the most clinically sound reports on age related disease or health care systems, but mine were certainly the most […]
Book Review: A Perfect America by Peter Meredith
By Marina Fontaine
I know what you’re thinking…Another day, another dystopia. It seems as if every author, especially of a conservative or libertarian persuasion, has a cautionary tale to offer. I have by now read too many to count, and most of them leave me unsatisfied. A good dystopia has a lot to accomplish, probably more than any […]
Writing Is A Thankless Job, Butt It Could Be Worse
By Audie Cockings
A reader hugged me from out of nowhere this week. She said that my novel has helped her grieve the sudden death of her adult son. Another woman, an elderly one, shared that my main character, Prudence Brandt, knows exactly what it feels like to be a widow who lost her husband and best friend. […]
Yes to Yes Means Yes!
By Audie Cockings
Dear Gov. Brown- Thank you from the bottom of my cold bleeding heart. It’s about time men realize that every unsavory sexual advance or encounter is their fault by the simple fact of anatomy. Radical feminists have been touting this fact for decades and this mother of two daughters is finally at peace knowing that […]
Yes, ISIS is Still Islamic
By Tom Weiss
Whenever there is an intra-party debate on the right, you’re likely to see prominently placed stories in major media outlets. You’ll rarely hear of a similar debate on the left unless you peruse their own websites and blogs but I happened to stumble across one today at Salon.com while satisfying my masochistic desire to see […]
Yes, It’s an Egg.
By Audie Cockings
We have some very confused birds on our lot. A robin or two that are convinced they are chickens, when they are indeed not. One little bird in particular has been laying beautiful little blue speckled eggs in our hen nesting box. That robin has been very sneaky–breaching the coop after hours while my hens […]
You Can’t Win If You Don’
By Vishnu Lorax
Some time ago there was a commercial for a state lottery saying, "You can’t win if you don’t play." Overlooking the fact the odds were still against you even when you did play, the statement itself was quite true. It’s true for politics as well, except you need to remember politics isn’t a relatively harmless […]
You Deserve Better Than God’s Not Dead
By David Dubrow
We need to talk about God’s Not Dead. It’s available on Netflix streaming. Horror fans are a lot like Christian fiction fans: there are so many truly terrible horror movies out there that when one comes out that’s even half-good, it gets lauded by fans of the genre as a masterful piece of filmmaking and […]
You Should See 2013’s The Bible
By David Dubrow
The Mark Burnett-produced 2013 TV miniseries The Bible is far from the best television you’ll ever see, but if you find Western culture to be at all relevant to your daily life, you have to watch it. Like it or not, the Bible and its teachings undergird much of the West’s laws, mores, and ethics, […]
Zombie Redoubts on the Go
By David Dubrow
In The Ultimate Guide to Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse, I described methods to turn your house or apartment into a Zombie Redoubt: a place of refuge that can be readily defended during a Zombie Apocalypse. If, for whatever reason, you can’t or won’t take those steps to make your home more zombie-resistant (almost no place […]
