The Truth is Out There

I think it’s pretty obvious by now that I’m a pretty big geek and that much of my geek-dom centers on science-fiction. I love the Star Wars movies more than I love some of my family members, I can make the “live long and prosper” sign with both hands, I have a star-covered teddy bear [...]

What the World Needs Now

Burt Bacharach declared it was what the world needed now. The Beatles said it was all you needed. Elton John asked if you could feel it tonight. And Foreigner wanted to know what it was. Turns out Hugh Grant was right: love actually is all around us. Love comes in many different forms, shapes and [...]

Fate versus Free Will

For my birthday, a handful of friends and I went to see The Adjustment Bureau, a movie starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. In the movie (based on a Philip K. Dick short story of the same name), Matt Damon’s character is a politician running for U.S. Senate. He meets a ballet dancer and connects [...]