Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

  • Apparently I went missing!  I had a few posts planned for the time I was out of town, but they didn’t make it.  I hope to make it up to you next week! PS–No video this week, either!

  • I’ve gotten hooked on the CW’s Ringer, a ridiculous show about twins, changing identity, and the attempt to change one’s life.  As TV, it is pure pulp, threads the line, not between plausible and implausible, but between implausible and ludicrous.  However, as study of human chaos and redemption, there is nothing like it on broadcast…

  • Why do you hate Advent?  Seriously.  What did it ever do to you?  It never tried to steal your lunch money.  It never made up rumors about you and spread them around school.  So what gives?  Why are you talking about a holiday that isn’t even here while ignoring the season that is? It isn’t…

  • I’ve made just a few simple changes to the blog over the last week that I hope better reflect my writing.  I’d love some feedback!  More to come in the near future, so stay tuned!

  • This is a simple question.  At what point do we take corporate responsibility for protecting another’s ignorance?  What is the threshold? I was thinking of the proverb “A fool and his money are soon parted” and the above question popped into my head.  Because why should we be so unsympathetic to the plight of the fool and…

  • I do think that sometimes 1+1=5.  That doesn’t make me crazy.  It means that we ought to account for our own blind spots.  To help me explain, I’ve recruited my own daughter. As you can see, she has written an interesting equation on the white board.  She is so proud of it, she wrote it…