TLDR: Gridlock in Congress. Budget talks have reached a standstill. A Congressman attempts to find common ground between the parties with a rudimentary question: can we all agree on what a circle looks like?
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The budget talks had run aground. The parties, anathema to one another, rejected outright all proposals that bore marks of authorship from the opposing side. Moored in ideology, the leaders of the parties dropped anchors in the mud and put their arms akimbo, chins to the sky. Any idea, even good ones, that floated across the aisle were riddled with bullets of doubt and, thus wounded, doused with kerosene of condescension, and finally lit afire with a striker of sparking insults, and once burned to ashes, the ashes were incinerated.
Yet the nation needed a budget. The alternative was a shutdown of . . . → Read More: Agreement on a Circle
TLDR: A retelling of The Miller’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer, set in 2009 at Stanford University. An aging researcher, Dr. Reeve, attempts to create a software program named Allison that can write stories. But his attempt to invent a machine that can create art stalls. He cannot marry logic and creativity as he hopes…until he hires a younger man to write the code.
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