A shallow meandering attempt to understand irony Here’s a fun way to generate a headache. What’s the definition of irony? Is it when you write a song called ‘Ironic’ that lists examples of irony but which aren’t technically ironic? First, here’s how a movie can get a definition to lodge in your memory. Exhibit A:…
There’s little to match the potential incrimination of video footage. A camera sensor cannot lie; it offers a view so much more objective than the darts of our biased theorizing eyes as they read scenes and situations by projecting out a lifetime of fears and expectations. The camera is a grid of light-sensitive pixels that…
Is the need for people to be secure not undermined by their right to buy guns? It is happening again. Another unhinged slaying of innocents. Another school, another young man unleashing a shocking expression of hate and anger. A scarily familiar news story emerging in its horrible details that resolve from vague guesses to real…