I woke up with a strange, uneasy feeling this morning, as if something major and world-shattering had happened. “I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened,” as my old teacher would have put it. Was…

I was about to go on a long rant about what’s bothering me today — the same thing that’s been bothering me for some time — the general lack of research that goes into the average item posted on someone’s Facebook wall or Twitter feed. I started out looking for a way to blame this…

It’s fun to feel superior to other people, isn’t it? Being better than the people next door, or the tribe across the valley, is one of Humanity’s oldest pursuits. This is, of course, thoroughly ridiculous… but we’ve dedicated most of our history to engaging in that sort of thing, because it makes us feel good…

Astrologers know that life is governed by a collection of recurring cycles. One of the more annoying of those recurring cycles is the fake news story claiming that “your Sign has changed.” There was an outbreak of this a few years ago, and now it’s back — largely because the Internet may always be up…

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