The Illusion of Freedom

Admin/ September 20, 2017/ Rants

  Growing up like so many in the United States, I was taken in with the awe of such a country where people were free to practice their own religion or believe generally whatever they wanted. This idealistic situation would have not even three hundred years ago have been seen as possible.  Such a utopia we were living in! But

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Using Darkness to Change the World

Admin/ February 11, 2017/ Books, Rants, Video Games

  Writing and I have had a fairly symbiotic relationship since I was very young.  I am one of those weird children who enjoyed writing far more than reading at first.  I discovered as I grew older that the reason behind this was as a result of me being both bored and disillusioned by what I was forced to read

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John McCain and the Radicalization of the American Politics

Admin/ May 27, 2015/ Political

  A look at the United States Political System does not bode well for optimism.  We have one of the most ineffective deadlocked Congresses in the history of the country.  Doing the opposite of whatever the President wants has become a legitimate political platform.  The economy does not actually appear to be in recovery at all.  The real reason the

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New Lessons from a Video Game that Defined my Childhood

Admin/ March 2, 2015/ Video Games

  There are three video games I played frequently as a child that could easily be described by this title, but of the three, one of them really stands out.  As a child, there were quite a few things I got out of the game that I will spend this post describing.  9/11 was still fresh in my mind and

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