by admin | Jun 9, 2025 | History, mental health
This is about knowing your emotional limits, expressed as a history nerd metaphor. I wrote it as a paramedic, with EMS in mind, but it certainly can apply elsewhere. I’ve been working on the ambulance for a quarter of a century. I’ve had Bad Days. Far more good days,...
by admin | May 3, 2018 | History, war, Writing
We constantly hear that we should write what we know. But there are plenty of things we don’t really know, but we write about anyway, like casting spells or space flight or fighting dragons. Now I’ve written before about ways to tap into your own experiences to add a...
by admin | Mar 14, 2018 | History, Writing
In fiction, as in life, it’s important to distinguish the motivations of the individual from those of the organization to which that individual belongs. This isn’t about good and evil, nor is it trying to make apologies. It’s just about recognizing the messiness of...
by admin | Oct 28, 2017 | American dream, Books, Doomsday, End of the World as we know it, History, Mr Sunshine, politics, publishing
So, this happened. For those of you too lazy to click the link, I’ll provide some background. The s/f cartoon Rick and Morty made a craving for McDonald’s discontinued Szechuan Dipping Sauce into a thing. It was a joke on the show, and as happens so often in geek...
by admin | Sep 25, 2013 | American dream, Fuck This Guy, government programs, History, Middle class, Mr Sunshine, politics, Society
So the CEO of AIG, which, in case you’ve forgotten, bent the economy over the banister and sodomized it back in 2008, and then got bailed out by you and me and every other American because they are to big to fail to contribute to politicians re-election...
by admin | Sep 11, 2013 | History, politics
Yep. I went there. I love the Pledge. I love my country. Two days after high school graduation I was standing at attention with my head shaved and my sphincter clenched as a DI roared at me. That’s how much I love my country. But “Under God” should not be there. It...
