Epic Battles: Bacon Vs. Grumpy Cat

By Piper Bayard The two most popular social media memes are Bacon and Grumpy Cat, but as Highlander fans can tell you, “There can be only one!” The time has come to decide, and the showdown is right here and now. Who will rule the Cyberverse, Bacon or...

Currency of the Apocalypse–Watcha Got?

By Piper Bayard The apocalypse has come. How are you going to pay for it? Your money is now worth nothing. Even your gold is indigestible. So what’s going to be the new medium of exchange? Let’s start with the obvious. Spam and Twinkies. Food is going to be in short...

Adios, Morsi! Update on Egypt

By Jay Holmes On July 3, 2013, as Americans were preparing to celebrate the 4th of July Independence Day, the Egyptian military acted on its threat to remove Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi from office. While it seems clear that a majority of Egyptians are happy to...

Echoes of Our Forefathers

By Piper BayardAt this time in America’s history, partisanship is more heated than it has been since the Civil War. We are regularly smacked in the face by evidence that both major political parties put their own interests above the interests of our nation....

Supervolcano Apocalypse Fashion

By Piper Bayard As humans, we seem, by and large, to have this idea that when we arrived, the planet, itself, arrived. Each generation has the notion that we are the final destination of both creation and evolution that will, somehow, some way, survive any apocalyptic...