Well, I’ll be a son of a gun of a fact. Today’s fact is that The city slicker beats the country hick 99 times out of 100. It’s a dangerous world to be ignorant in. And the yokel from out in the boonies has a monopoly on true ignorance. He doesn’t read books (all that […]

The portal to another dimension was now open. It swirled in colors: purple, black, and the deepest of blues. A skeletal hand was coming out of the portal, straight at your eyes. It had five rings on its five bony fingers. One ring showed the earth rotating around an onyx backdrop supposed to represent space. […]

The dangers of burnout in the life of a man are very real. It is all too easy to exhaust the supply of oxygen and go flaming out in a burnout that’ll make a minor disaster look like a nuclear strike. We all need time to break and recharge. Without this, we are perilously close […]

Did pinball machines come before arcade games? Was the disastrous “TILT” warning a precursor to “GAME OVER” in all its forms? Be a pinball wizard of life. Shoot balls for the sky. Kiss the balls with your flapping pedals. Only then will you see that you can’t miss. This is a sure thing. I never […]

Illegal immigrants are to be excluded from the new version of the U.S. Census, by fiat order of President Donald J. Trump. It all has a carnival air about it. One half expects a field of white mist to roll out of the sidelines of the stage while martial Laibach music thunders on the industrial-strength […]

“Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you […]

The Brazilian Mutt’s comment about how writing consistently is important despite being difficult got to me and inspired this article. So, thanks, Mutt. What is the value of writing? Why does it matter that we do it? I think that writing, in some fundamental way, changes the universe. Oh, the changes may be imperceptible and […]

“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.” — Julius Caesar Today is the one-year anniversary of the Dark Sport website! No roses, please, just money… Heh heh heh. After more than 300 posts, including a good two dozen stories, […]

I was watching two bears eating a red-streaked chunk of deer flesh on frontpage internet news media, and it occurred to me that this might sicken someone — someone who has cheeseburgers at a fast food joint, and watches UFC fights for the excitement of it. There was an article over a motorcyclist being killed […]