In 2010, Mark Halperin and John Heilemann released their book Game Change, which told the behind-the-scenes story of all of the campaigns in the 2008 presidential election. The book was extraordinarily well-received, inspiring an award-winning HBO movie and setting a new standard for presidential campaign books. Now, four years later, Mark Halperin and John Heilemann … Read more
I don’t know why I never realized that my feelings of “when my friends try to get me to go out after I eat a big meal” could be so perfectly summarized by a repeated moving image of Ash, Misty, and Brock trying to roll Snorlax out of the road. I laugh, watch a few … Read more
One of StoryTellerBob’s best works is a short story entitled “Ten Years.” In 7,000 words, the author grapples with the problem of what it might be like to relive a decade of one’s life, and the twist at the end is akin to what one might see in a Borges or Poe tale. Yet StoryTellerBob … Read more
In the wake of Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, and the NSA surveillance scandal, it is clear that the front lines of the War on Terror are as domestic as they are foreign. Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD’s Secret Spying Unit and Bin Laden’s Final Plot Against America, an exposé by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Matt Apuzzo … Read more
Corey Ann had had enough. In a recent Huffington Post diatribe, the Ohio-based wedding photographer pointed out his experiences with wedding guests whose camera flashes disrupted his own professional photography. Such frustrations, presumably shared by many such photographers, led Ann to call for “unplugged weddings.” But these guest photographers’ over-eagerness bears evidence of a deeper … Read more
It’s been exactly a month and a half since I saw 12 Years a Slave. Weeks later, as I sit here writing this article, I still vividly remember the tears in the eyes of the men and women around me at the film’s close, the intense tug in my own chest and the first tear to blur … Read more
Search “millennial” on Google and one will find endless links discussing how millennials work and what makes them tick. One has only to look to TIME magazine’s controversial May 2013 cover, titled “The ME ME ME Generation: Millennials are lazy, entitled narcissists who still live with their parents. Why they’ll save us all,” to realize … Read more
Superman is the quintessential American superhero. His name is a byword for exceptional performance in a way that is almost hyperbolic, and his red cape and blue suit with the iconic red “S” is a symbol that is recognized around the world. From his creation in the 1930s, Superman has had a special place in … Read more
The first 40 minutes of Ender’s Game are like watching an Ender’s Game wiki. Even a decade removed from my second reading of Orscon Scott-Card’s fabled sci-fi story of a young general’s rise, I was bored by a clipped script, stunted plot, and limited acting. In the slew of movies based on young adult thrillers, … Read more
For two weeks the United States Government was closed for business. Two weeks of stagnation because one half of the members of one chamber of one section of the United States Government decided it would be a good idea to shut the whole thing down—in order to repeal a law that has made it through … Read more