Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine

Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine

Tim Snyder provides a rich background on Ukraine and it’s relationship with the kingdoms before Russia, all the way up to the modern day. He also argues that the war in Ukraine isn’t really about “getting the band back together” (Soviet Union), it’s more about embarrassing Ukraine and showing his own people that Russians are

Russian Roulette and Little Green Men

Russian Roulette and Little Green Men

From time to time, I still go back and watch this series of reporting by Simon Ostrovsky from Vice News in 2014 during the Russian invasion of Crimea. I remember watching it each day as the situation in Crimea was unfolding. Simon Ostrovsky is such a bad ass for just wondering around and asking Russian

Optimistic Nihilism

Sometimes, when I’m in public, I look around at all of the random people I don’t know, and I truly celebrate our existence. I take a second to appreciate us. Us! We are literally amazing. We’re all obviously the outcome of 330,000 years of modern human brains doing the impossible to give us existence. And,

True Story: How The Face Bite Was Invented

It was the early 1990s in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. A lazy suburb in North East Ohio made up of Cape Cod and Colonial homes. If you drove through this town, you would never know the darkness that lurked below the surface. The yards were well maintained, and people smiled at their neighbors. But, below the

Is Telsa Manufacturing Really Better?

Is Telsa Manufacturing Really Better?

This toy is the closest we’ll come to having a Tesla any time soon, but my daughter loves hers.  I won’t be buying a Tesla any time soon, because I still see some serious problems. While I hear a lot of Tesla fanboys talk about how great Teslas are, it feels like a religion. I’m