Despite the constant media spotlight on mass shootings, it's true that gun deaths have decreased in the U.S., tracking the decrease in violent crime.

If not for the gravity of his xenophobic policies and the fact that so many people in the U.S. take him seriously, it's absurd and hilarious that Donald Trump is citing the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII as justification for banning Muslim immigrants.

Of course, I suppose I really should’ve searched Google before trying to coin a phrase. Other people have already used the analogy of the mechanisms of life to the mechanisms of computer programming and information technology.

Am I growing set in my ways? Or is it just that I really hate this time of year, and the night feels like a smothering weight crushing me into the ground?