On Guns

Recently, a friend of mine seemed to think that I’m some kind of flowery peacenik hippie liberal who hates guns and seemed surprised that I wanted to buy one.  This seems to be a common mistake, I think; there’s a strong correlation between people who favor policies like a robust social safety net, Universal Health [...]

On “Crime Time”

I’ve gotten the nickname in the offices of The West Georgian of “Crime Time”, because of my work writing crime-related articles, particularly the police blotter articles.  In the past, on my facebook, I produced a short and sweet guide to writing crime stories for The West Georgian.  I summed up the steps and laid out [...]

On Graffiti

Graffiti is as old as 30,000 B.C.E.; it can be found in the earliest attempts of cave drawing, when humans first started deciding to write on things to express ideas before language existed.  The only surviving examples of Safaitic (an ancient pre-arabic language) are in the form of approximately 6,000 year old graffiti on rocks [...]