Scott Robinson
Wordle Bonding
In recent months, I’ve started every day with the same ritual: I roll out of bed, fix a cup of coffee, and play Wordle. I was, I think, a...
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Scott Robinson
May 4, 20222 min read
Laundryball
The washing machine was invented by a man. Nah! you surely scoff, if men had any say in it, clothes wouldn’t get washed at all! Or,...
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Scott Robinson
Feb 19, 20224 min read
The Best Beatles Album to Have Sex To
Fans of a certain age will remember the early Seventies, a singular era when psychedelia had let album-oriented rock into our bedrooms,...
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Scott Robinson
Feb 4, 20222 min read
The Greatest Internship on Earth!
INTERNSHIP AVAILABLE Are you a young man between the ages of 16-18, looking for a work experience that will prepare you for literally...
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Scott Robinson
Jan 30, 20227 min read
Joy to the World
The little bell above the shop door dingled as Sophie McDonald, age twenty-two, rushed in and flew across the floor, pushing past her...
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Scott Robinson
Dec 5, 202118 min read
Mandarin Redux
I The horizon was pink and gray and laced with strands of bright silver lightning. The near-full moon had begun glaring down through a...
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Scott Robinson
Nov 26, 20215 min read
Alice Cooper, Limp Bizkit, and Rock Fraud
Alice Cooper is a fraud. The granddaddy of shock rock, who peaked somewhere around the election of Jimmy Carter, is a prominent if not...
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Scott Robinson
Nov 25, 20215 min read
The Disturbed Sound of Silence
There are some elements of rock that have simply gotten stronger and stronger over time, immune to the dilutions of fashion and...
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Scott Robinson
Oct 30, 20218 min read
Menagerie
She carefully tied her shoes with well-crafted loops (as always), tucking the shopping list (which was almost always the same) into the...
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Scott Robinson
Oct 8, 20218 min read
Bad Dog!
Young Jessie Petrie scooted herself up in her bed with effort, cautious of the IV in her left arm, rising up enough to survey her entire...
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Scott Robinson
Oct 2, 20218 min read
A Little Light Reading
Sunlight flared and the windshield dimmed, and the Director glanced to his left as the transport dropped past his own cruiser, tossing...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 26, 20213 min read
Drowning in Dopamine
Anna Lembke, a psychiatrist at Stanford University, reported to the Wall Street Journal that we are facing a new and dangerous form of...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 26, 20214 min read
The AI Future of War
Kai-Fu Lee believes that humankind has risen to a whole new level of war-waging. In his new book 2041: Ten Visions of Our Future, Lee...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 25, 202110 min read
Humanism, Star Trek-Style...
Much has been made of the fact that Star Trek is, underneath the hull, a humanist manifesto. This derives from creator Gene Roddenberry’s...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 25, 20215 min read
The Answer That Satisfied, the Answer That Was True
As I write this, it is the day after Apple TV’s new adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation epic – stories of the far future, when...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 25, 20211 min read
Velveteen
No religious clap-trap, no holy book, no ideology, no textbook, not even any Beatles song can match the clarity and honesty and reality...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 25, 20217 min read
The Beggar's Infant
The sociologist Tony Campolo (who is also a Baptist Evangelical minister) has made a side career of speaking to multinational...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 18, 20215 min read
The 5 Types of Exes
On the Star Trek spin-off Deep Space 9, there are these two characters – Dr. Julian Bashir and Leeta, the Bajoran dabo girl – who have a...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 4, 20218 min read
Spelunker
“The spot where we’re standing,” said the spunky little guide with her dimples and green eyes and perky tits, “is ten million years old!...
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Scott Robinson
Jul 25, 20212 min read
Star Trek: The Next Reunion
Star Trek had played huge in my ADHD youth, as detailed above. My first ADHD tribe, the guys at Franklin County High, had all been Trek...
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