The previous installment of Chloe Bradshaw's pirate saga can be found here. While I thought about my brother and contemplated my undead state, Luke sat nearby, eyes closed. “I am ready to leave." I...
When I heard about the raid on a fundamentalist Texas compound called Yearning for Zion, I got to thinking about polygamy (well, my initial thought was more along the lines of "wow, I really want to...
I was excited to explore this city after having heard so much about Budapest from my Grandmother, Pempe Aitken, who once joined Queen Juliana of Holland on her honeymoon here. It was the celebratory...
I want to provide you with a mariner’s chart of my character: the contrasts and topography of my chipped, flawed personality. What the hell, you ask? Well, this is based on that narcissism that all...
The previous installment of Chloe Bradshaw's pirate saga can be found here. Floating in the sea I looked around in search for the other members of my doomed crew. I couldn’t see through the sheet...
Fitna (the Arabic word for ‘dissension’), a new film by Geert Wilders, a rightwing Dutch parliamentarian, should not be suppressed. This isn't because it has anything valuable or insightful to...
Writers, when they come to teach you the humanities, run away. The divorce of dignity and method afflicts and impairs every system of thought. Law, for example, ceases to serve the ends of providing...
The thought of it excited her. She discussed it with her tender peers. They were open with anticipation For confirmation of their fears, For reprieve from waiting, For a taste of the Garden, Which...
Chloe Bradshaw is 13. The previous installment of her pirate saga can be found here. The man who stood before me was supposed to be dead, and yet he wasn't. “How?” I said in a gasp. “I cannot...
This is a review of Who Speaks For Islam: What A Billion Muslims Really Think, by John Esposito and Dalia Mogahed. Gallup Poll Press. First Printing: 2007. This book attempts a systematic survey of...
