The Cold War was a scary time.
Locked in an atomic stalemate, the great powers of the world engaged in a precarious game of cat and mouse. The very survival of the human race was in jeopardy. In those times of desperation, the American People called out for a hero.
They...
When you think turkey, you think Thanksgiving, or Christmas.
You think wrong.
The festive fowl that graces your holiday table is no longer merely a seasonal entree. In modern America, you can now eat turkey whenever you want. Every day, in fact. All day, every day...
Red Pill or Blue Pill?
For ages, the choice between reality and imagination has presented itself as a dilemma between the hard road of truth and the ease and comfort of delusion. Our hero finds himself at such a crossroads, as he approaches the upcoming school dance with a mix...
The Devil's not getting any younger.
Sure, the Prince of Darkness was wild and unruly in his misspent youth. And, yes, he had his fun, what with raising an army against the heavens, leading mankind into temptation, and inspiring sports bars to buy karaoke machines. ...
Oh, those silly-goose wives of the Eisenhower years.
While their husbands were toiling late into the night, inventing the hula hoop and shooting chimpanzees into space, many solitary hausfraus with overactive imaginations actually came to believe that their spouses were entertaining the...
Do you live in a democracy?
Don't answer yet. It's not an easy question. There are many factors one must consider when....
Excuse me, that first part was rhetorical. You can't know whether or not you live in a democracy until you've studied...
The earth is doomed.
Of course, this is hardly news. The signs are clear: War. Injustice. Pushing Daisies was cancelled while The Bachelorette mercilessly continues. Yes, we all live in constant awareness of the impending apocalypse,...
Once Upon a Time, a fluffy bunny with abandonment issues and a duckie with Scrappy-Doo delusions of grandeur formed an unlikely friendship.
Our forestial chums bonded in the face of the impending winter frost, knowing that their fraternal affection would survive as the chilly winds...
Aliens are evil.
Except ALF. And E.T.
Vulcans are okay. Klingons came around, eventually.
Wookies, of course, are awesome.
On second thought, aliens are kind of a mixed bag. Perhaps there's a lesson here. A lesson of tolerance, a lesson of open...
Fairies like cookies. And have power over life and death.
Santa knows this, and respects this consistently. However, one Christmas Eve, he makes a cookie date with the Fairy Snow Queen, and stands her up.
Yes, he's a married man, and whatever happens, he had coming....
Poor Susan Jane Smith! Despite a name that's very similar to one of the most popular Doctor Who companions, she finds herself a social outcast. And since she goes to a school where everyone's a soc, and nobody's a greaser, that leaves her as the singular Outsider. No rumbles,...
A homemaker in the 1950s often found herself tortured by the pressures of the era. Would her children be seduced by the temptations of motorcycle gangs and that awful Rock 'n Roll music? Were there really communists deep under cover in the PTA? And worst of all...would a snarky...
Times are tough. Competition in the workforce is fierce. Mere adequate performance doesn't cut it anymore. If you can't find a way to make a difference for your employer, a metaphoric clone of you will step into one-half of a stationary camera shot and make you look bad.
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As young women mature, they find themselves under pressure to conform to the expectations of their peers, establish an identity, get shot in the head by blank bullets, select a...wait, what now?
Meet the Sisters. A secret society so secret that...well, it's not. Everyone...
You'd think you could name your daughter after Sgt. Carter's girlfriend from Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., and you'd be able to sleep at night, knowing she'd grow up to be a fine upstanding citizen who wears scarves to her college classes, focuses on her studies, and stays away from the wacky...
Not everybody's cut out to be a salesman. Not everybody is driven by disembodied voices and visages in hot beverages. Fortunately for capitalism, such people do exist. Our protagonist is an insurance agent, worried that he will never find enough diner waitresses with unrequited...
Not all Navy pilots are cool enough to hang out with Anthony Edwards and Meg Ryan. Some, like Dilbert, shouldn't even be allowed to socialize with Val Kilmer. Yes, even after the weight gain. Meet Dilbert: The Bottom Gun of our elite WWII fighter pilots.
