That sensation one gets when one knows where someone else is coming from but can still tell they’re full of crap: This morning, I found myself waiting on the register line at Best Buy. I am holding my sole purchase, a Blu-Ray disk of a recent movie I won’t name in this context because I […]
The latest fad on Facebook and online in general is presenting lists of unpopular opinions. And like much of human interaction, it boils down in many cases to either telling folks that what they like sucks, or that what they hate doesn’t suck. I have indulged in this myself, and have come to an interesting […]
If someone tells you online or in person that he’s just read a book by a given writer and pronounces it superior, you cannot win an argument about the quality of the writer by declaring that you gave up reading that writer’s works twenty years ago, and especially not if you hated one book that […]