Everyone Predicted It: So Much for PreCrime

The day before the Florida shootings I mentioned the 2002 sci-fi landmark, Minority Report.  But looking over this latest horror show in Parkland, it hit me like a bolt out of the blue just how antithetical to Minority Report's premise this mess is.

After all, you didn't need a pre-cog to tell you this kid was a walking time-bomb of some sort or other.

"Everyone Predicted It."

No doubt you've heard by now. I don't even know what to say about this shit anymore. I actually don't want to say anything at all, that's how bone-weary I am of these events. 

Ritual Olympics: The Cyclone and the Siren

We recently looked at how the appearance of a topless cross-country skier from Tonga seemed to be the most gripping story--for the media, that is-- during the opening of the 2018 Winter Olympics. 

How did that work out for the tiny island nation in the South Pacific?

Subterranean Cosmo-Demonic AI Blues

Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality. 

And when I say "your brain," what I really mean is the Cosmo-Demonic intelligence currently rewriting reality using our large hadron colliders and quantum-computing platforms. 

And maybe your brain. A little.

Vegas Rising, or Babylon on the Colorado

Wow, the hits just keep on coming. 

For reasons I'm not entirely comfortable acknowledging, we're seeing more and more focus placed on Sin City these days. We're going to be seeing a lot more besides, so gird your loins.