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Cream of the Cool

I was glancing through the news this morning and came across an article that caught my eye. It was in regards to the recent tornado that ripped through Oklahoma killing at least 24 people, 9 of them children. Besides the toll taken in human life, the area is devastated with homes, schools, hospitals and businesses virtually wiped off the map.

Leave it to nut job and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to speculate that the government might have used a “weather weapon” to create the…

J.J. Abrams got the chance to reboot the original Star Trek back in 2009, bringing to it a youthful cast, an action movie sensibility, and lots of lens flare. The film didn't sit well with all fans, but many people embraced Abrams' flashy vision. Nothing succeeds in Hollywood like success, and the new crew of the Starship Enterprise returned in 2013 with Star Trek Into Darkness.

I like the acting. I like the visuals. And I’d like it if Abrams and company…

Perhaps I should have just gone to beauty school and gotten a license to cut hair. If timed right, I do a pretty decent job. And by that I mean the family members whose hair I cut are satisfied.

My daughter said, "you still could, then at least you would be getting paid to listen to strangers' lives." I asked her how short she wanted it, then made the first chop. Her auburn hair starting falling to the grass as I imagined myself to be…

"Ask my family and they'll tell you I was a Navajo.
Ask the Army Air Force and they'll say I was an American.
But if you ask my brothers, they'll set you straight.
John Cloud was a Loser."

Long before the Vertigo comic or the movie based on it, "The Losers" was an old-school war comic published by DC Comics.

The series was created by writer Robert Kanigher (with illustrations by a variety of DC's artists, including Sam Glanzman,…