The Plasmic Ramblings of Brian Rushton

The Star Wars sequel trilogy is dumb for a bunch of reasons, starting with the way it totally undoes all the good that was done with the ori...

Sometime back in the 90s, my friend rented Lemmings for the Super Nintendo, and we played it a bunch. It's a fairly simple puzzle thing,...

Mourning the loss of someone you love is difficult and painful. Various cultures and religions have developed traditions designed to help pe...

I've been rewatching a bunch of Deep Space Nine episodes. Not all of them, but the good ones. I will always like The Next Generation mor...

Last year we moved to a new house, which is surrounded by a lot of trees. One day in springtime, our neighbor texted me picture of a bear be...

Every once in a while people argue about what it means to be "old". Some of my kids think that 50 is the cutoff. The term is relat...

Abortion is one of the most polarized issues in American politics. It's also one of the worst-debated ones. Both sides tend to rely on s...