Category Archives: People

Top 10 Reasons Ghosts Don’t Exist

Like violent videogames, pornography, or gambling, Halloween seems like it might satisfy an innate human need to experience the entirety of the emotional spectrum. Everyone wants to push it to the limit on Halloween, all while still knowing that they’re safe. Perhaps that’s why people “believe” in ghosts. They know deep down inside that they can’t be possible, but they want that feeling of awe and wonderment that’s been missing since someone first told them that Santa or the Tooth Fairy existed. Or that one day they could be president.

So with that bit of depressing cynicism, I decided to write a list of reasons why I believe that ghosts cannot, do not, and will never exist.

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The Bad Kind of Pandemic

My wife and I recently saw Contagion. At times this film was a bit spooky, as any realistic depiction of population-destroying virus should be. Brooding electronic music paired with a montage of empty streets and uncollected garbage gave me a sense of what the world would look like if the fragility of civilization were tested. Each scene is a vignette of the increasingly dire situation each character faces, and the consistent tempo makes the struggle palpable. Nobility wins the day, however, as sacrifices are made and lives are saved.

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Obligatory 9/11 Post

Ten years later is there anything to say that’s more insightful or interesting than the things we said on that day? I don’t thing there is. I feel badly for all of the families who experienced loss on that day. I feel badly that this country lost a bit of its innocence. I feel badly that there are children who are told they are different because one or two of their parents died on that day. But I don’t feel badly for America.

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Another Summer, Another Storm

The drama of preparing for a hurricane is something that most people experience indirectly; it’s presented by someone in a suit sitting behind a desk and followed up by sports highlights. Living in an area where the preparation is ocurring is a different matter entirely.

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Tomorrow is Friday! 91% Care!

Thursday is done and tomorrow is Friday! But I think just about 9% of Americans won’t be excited they don’t have to work on Saturday.

“Hey man, any plans for the weekend?”

“Yeah, actually. Just going to have a funeral service for the American Dream. You?”

“Thanks man. Now I feel guilty for writing this entire blog post.”

I think that same 9% is going to be laughing at the other 91% on April 15th when they mail their check for $0 to the IRS.

But then again the other 91% could still afford Internet access to E-file so who’s laughing?