NOTE: For the sake of word economy and sheer laziness, throughout this article I’ll be taking advantage of two literary devices — Poker slang and using forms of the generic pronoun “he” to describe most players. Poker has a subculture...
(Repost, originally published on the BGP site in Summer, 2007) NOTE: As of this writing, this blog entry is way over a month late. When I started writing it I knew it wasn’t going to be on time. I knew it had to be right, as well as next in the sequence or...
It’s a balmy 77 degrees this morning, expected to rocket into the 90s within a few hours. There’s alot going on in the area but chances are I’ll skip most of it. The heat, the crowds, and the hoopla seem to have much less appeal with each passing...
> Chivalry — pulling out chairs to seat woman, rising when she excuses > herself to the restroom, the art of clearing the way through a crowd > with one arm while gently cradling the woman with the other, among > other things — will go the way of the...
A Matter of Life, Art and Youth: Are the Effects of Violence in the Media on Youth Perpetuated by Art Imitating Life or Life Imitating Art? by Max Nomad (C) Copyright 2005 . Max Nomad . All Rights Reserved. Among the tenets that most psychologists embrace as...