Growing up in some basic US suburbs never did much for my patriotic spirit. Politics always felt far away. Not that it didn’t affect me, because it obviously did. It still never felt like it. Which is weird considering that politics is physically close to you pretty much wherever you are in the US, with…

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time I fear it is that time again. It seems every few months the inexorable Wheel…