I’ve come to realize we have constantly been faced with the dreaded unknown of our future. Now, that may seem like an obvious statement, but we have been conditioned since we were little to ponder the question, “What do you wanna do with your life?” Every elementary school child was asked the same question: “What […]
The sun rose very slowly over a large field of grass. It was a lazy summer afternoon. People were taking walks, having picnics, feeding the ducks, or just laying down. What they didn’t know was that right under their noses in the blades of grass was a little ant fighting for his life. Now the […]
Night begins to move, writhing and seething as the bristled backs catch the light of the dropping sun. Among the red rock lives a creature who carries night on his back and stars in his eyes. The cicada calls to him from his place along the ravine scarred by waters now long dry. Those who […]
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In what ways could the sun eat the sky? In an auburn-radiant shade, cloaked in sifting haze? Harboring mahogany howls, slowly fading crimson-cloudlines? Beating blood orange beams of sun death consume your vision; to butcher your former attention; mindless death—ignoring individualism. Sun, Eat me like you eat skylines Before my mind is mossed in […]
After lavender and magenta dissolve into twilight, twilight melts into darkness and my ghost comes to visit me fleeing her dwelling place she drips out of the glass picture frame, with pale skin and shaky hands she seeps underneath my chilled skin curling her toes into the muscle and tissue: a silent plea— please […]
Dear Tiff and Earl, My professor cold calls during lectures. How can I avoid this? Signed, Anxious Dear Anxious, The best defense is a good offense. Cold call your professor and grade his responses on the spot. Cheers! Tiff Hey Anxious! Here’s a tip: drop the class. No more cold calling, and maybe instead of […]
USDA Approves First Vaccine for Bees Recently, the United States Department of Agriculture approved a vaccine for honeybees to protect these crucial pollinators against American Foulbrood Disease, a highly contagious disease that infects bee larvae and pupae. AFB can spread quickly within honeybee colonies, as well as to other hives, making it particularly dangerous. Bees […]
The rise and fall of your cryptocurrency empire/Ponzi scheme (sorry, but the truth is the truth) has raised many questions about the model of “effective altruism” you embraced. As for me, I can only think, “If only you had listened to the Church Fathers.” “Effective altruism,” as advocated for by philosophers like your mentor William […]
With mass shootings on the rise once again, inaction still runs rampant within the American legal system. Recently the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals released a new decision that will allow domestic abusers to own guns. Even though domestic abuse situations are closely tied to mass shootings, courts continue to uphold gun rights at the […]