Category: horror
-
If You Don’t Like Swine Flu, Stop Having Sex With Pigs
Here is some perspective. There have been six cases of swine flu in Canada so far. The chance of dying from swine flu if you get it is less than 1%. So if you randomly shuffled Canada’s 33 million people and gave six of them swine flu, the probability of you dying from it is…
-
Forever. Forever Ever. Forever Ever?
The concept of forever is a funny one. We all know that nothing lasts forever. When first falling in love – and in the special rare cases where it lasts, for several decades afterward – we have the gut feeling that it will last forever. Marriage, if we go down that road, makes this explicit.…
-
Book Review: The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
The Road is an extremely bleak tale about a father and son’s struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. That’s about all there is to it. But between the lines of the glaringly minimalistic prose are themes of love, hope, morality, and even a bit of faith. This is not an uplifting book; it’s clear…
Phronk.com 