John Boucha

Bill Shakespeare once wrote of life’s most bothersome quandary, “To be, or not to be?”, the well-known, but often misunderstood, imperative to living that begets compounding influence over our future self. The Laws of Reality, it would seem, have bound us to the dichotomy of decision trees and forced us to choose between life's diverging paths. To fight or flight, to swim for a goal or to fl...

Some people think baseball is boring. As if nothing were more wretched than an afternoon watching a professional sport where doping is so widespread yet the only physical contact deemed essential are the few congratulatory butt slaps. So I wonder what would make baseball more exciting, more bedazzling to ...

The shape-shifting morals of any society metamorphose with the behavior of its individual members. Through the choice of action and non-action we cast votes in a twisted sort of democratic election, nominating the variable truths and virtues we submit to. But however honest our intentions may be, humans are not without bias and this shoddy conventionalism surrenders poignant examples of skewed pri...

Without doubt, the most attractive period in human history is that radical decade we fondly remember as the nineteen-eighties. Our senses are aroused by the unabashed frosty-eyed exuberance that erupted into a melange of neon color, synth pop, joysticks, lasers, guitar solos and hairspray excess. No other crosshatching of culture, cinema, music and technology resonates into today with such bitchin...

There are many disturbing consequences of one species’ unchecked population growth towards a suffocated oblivion, but one of the more unsettling outcomes of this reckless and egocentric lunacy is seen in the United Nation’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs prediction...

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a sarcastic portrayal of the misguided leadership found in the upper echelons of business and government. There’s no denying the maladies found in the unbelievable design flaws, misuse of technologies and resources, endless costs and laissez-faire oversight. The whole operation is such a bastardized thing I don’t whether to throw feces or spit. Worst of...

Is there no greater achievement in the pages of human history than that of the written word? Without text and the eternal wisdom contained therein man would still be hibernating inside those delicate walls that shelter illiteracy, crippled by the dark recesses of his poor memory. Reading gives rise to the inspiration and creative surges needed for every discovery civilization has had or ever will ...

I wish to write some marvelously fantastic blurb about Oasis that would equal the band’s own monumental achievements. I’ve spent weeks sitting like Winnie the Pooh, one arm folded, the other tapping my dense skull in a trying effort to dislodge even a wee bit crumb of Novelty, but I can only curse my feeble imagination as nothing comes to mind that would do the Gallagher brothers justice. Oh, ...

History is known to many as the greatest writer and actor of all time, and yet History is by no means creative, or even original, invariably through the twenty-four hours of its normal day. A seemingly content chronicler of events, History is often seen linking stories in a sequential chain spanning beyond the scope of human perception. Millions of people, the links of a nation, are cast and spent...

A curious child might look upon that rainbow of religious thought found throughout the land and ponder over the fact higher beings always seem to share the same visual appearance as the ethnic groups that follow them. This inquisitive youth might ask, Why? Like, why isn’t Vishnu black or Loki Mexican? Why doesn’t Jesus wear a sombrero or why doesn’t Zeus have dreadlocks? Unbeknownst to the c...