"The electric things have their life too. Paltry as those lives are." - Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? OXFORD, Ohio (ZP) -- Somewhere in time, on some drunken night of mayhem, he'd shattered his iPhone against a brick wall. Chunks of ancient red dust from some ...

“You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens..." - Angelina Jolie (1975- ),Actress and Adopter of Orphans * * * * "If I can't dance, it's not my revolution." - Emma Goldman (1869-1940), Anarchist and Feminist OXFORD, Ohio (ZP) -- He's a regular Killer Diller, walking t...

OXFORD, Ohio (ZP) -- He fidgets with the brim of his ball cap. He's already readjusted his oversize basketball shorts four times in just over five minutes. Homeboy finally settles into his carefully maintained slovenly student image after staring at his reflection in the storefront, adjusting his sh...

If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. - Freeman John Dyson, Physicist and Mathematician,from Disturbing the Universe, 1979 OXFORD, Ohio (ZP) -- I began my ...

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. - Ralph Waldo Emerson,from Self-Reliance , 1841 OXFORD, Ohio (ZP) -- He told her, bluntly, that he'd slept with her first-y...