TWEETMENT by Leigh Lundin In a recent column about the Apple iPad, I speculated what might happen if Star Trek officers used Twitter:     @Troi: Leaving Rigel VII; Riker was like so all hands on deck Where’s my iPenicillin?     @Captain: Secret mission to Alpha Centauri to kick Klingon butt. Don’t tell Worf! […]

The THING in the NORTH WOODS by Leigh Lundin The forest was dark that night, winds whipping through the trees, battering the eaves. The temperature plummeted below freezing into negative numbers, but the house was warm and dark, a cocoon in the scattered reaches of the state park. The sound in the corner of the […]

Virginia Christian VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA by Leigh Lundin Thursday, the Commonwealth of Virginia executed the first woman in nearly a hundred years. Although women commit 41% of domestic homicides, fewer than 1% of people sentenced to death will be women. But, travel with me back to 1912. The Case of Virginia Christian A century ago, a […]

ELECTRIFYING by Leigh Lundin It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets, rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flicker of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. Through the […]

The iPAD by Leigh Lundin Before friends Sharon and Steve flew off to California, Sharon begged me to set up her new iPad, akin to asking a teenage garage mechanic if he’d mind test driving your new Lamborghini. I sighed mightily and allowed that after my many other duties, I might reluctantly glance at it. […]

CRIME & FICTION by Leigh Lundin If you’re like me, you receive a lot of ‘fiction’ in your eMail, no-longer-thinly disguised diatribes about someone else’s race or religion. These rants pretend toward ‘truth’, which make them worse than fiction, since the best fiction opens a window upon truth itself. At the last moment last week, […]

DEATH and DESTRUCTION by Leigh Lundin So much crime news flooded the network this week, I couldn’t fit in more than a taste. Some are very serious, but I’ll try to lighten the load. Corporate Death Threats Arizona is becoming weirder by the week, no longer a place for odd-tasting ice tea in pretty packaging. […]