Tagged with United States

What Comes After the Dark?

This last weekend, my wife and I watched Zero Dark Thirty on cable. I'll pass on detailed commentary, other than to say it was far better than I had anticipated, and not quite entirely unlike what most reviewers on all sides had said about it. (I frequently find that to be the case. Reviewers … Continue reading →

Minute Ricin

Roger Von Bergendorff was more than a lone wolf. He was a strange, distempered wolf. Often sick as a dog, he was over $6,000 behind on his rent in La Mesa, California. He finally found refuge in his mid 50s in a Riverton, Utah house owned by his cousin, Thomas Tholen. Riverton is a suburb, … Continue reading →

Kim’s Chorea

In human medicine, a chorea is a disease that causes unnatural writhing movements that are described as "dance-like". According to etymologists, the term is also found in the name of the Greek muse of the dance, Terpsichore, whose name means "delight in dancing". The best known chorea is … Continue reading →

A Tale of Two Koreas

If you were under the mistaken impression that things on the Korean Peninsula couldn't get any worse, they just did. Dear Leader Kim Jong Un, the son of a son of a genocidal maniac, has unilaterally declared null and void the armistice ending the Korean Conflict. When the South tried to call … Continue reading →