Kevin Leaverton is an adjunct professor at Central Washington University and Yakima Valley Community College in beautiful Washington State. He spends time with his family and loves serious works of historic non fiction such as Star Wars, James Bond books, and the writings of famed theologian Stan Lee.
It is so hard right now to be a Republican. With so many Republican voters feeling like they are getting stuck with Donald Trump and so many Democrat voters feeling like they are getting stuck with H...
If any molecule of your being has ever enjoyed professional wrestling, then you need to be watching Lucha Underground on the El Rey network. Season one of the show was fresh and exciting, and season ...
As a young teenager, I used to love watching WWE wrestling. The Undertaker battling The Ultimate Warrior (and locking Warrior in an airtight casket!) is one of my first memories of those larger than ...
Comic books are known for their bombastic action sequences, played out by larger than life heroes trying to save the world from larger than life villains. As consumers, we pay to read these action se...
All of us need role models as we grow up and make the difficult decision about identity that shape how are lives progress on a day to day basis. The lucky ones can look up to their parents for an exam...
If you like Marvel comics, or the movies and television shows that have spun off of Marvel comics, the 1960s are a supremely awesome time to explore. Superhero comics had gone out of vogue decades ea...
At this time, it must be pretty stressful to be a fact checker for politicians. Among President Obama's State of the Union and all the Democratic and Republican speeches going on during this primary s...
Let's take a moment to talk about space vampires. There's a space vampire in the original Star Wars movie named Dannik Jerriko who you probably don't remember. He is the guy in the Mos Eisley Cantin...
Relationships are, for the most part, transient. We often hear about couples who spend decades together as legal or casual partners, but even more often hear about couples who don't quite make it. S...
If you have had the ill fortune to watch the 1967 "comedic" version of Casino Royale, released by Columbia pictures, you saw a lot of terrible characterizations of James Bond. In the movie, MI6 makes...
The James Bond movies have a special place in the hearts and minds of many cinophiles all over the world. The box office success of the latest James Bond movie SPECTRE is proof that after 53 years of...
Marriage is one of the oldest social institutions in human culture: the economic contract between two patriarchs, one with a teenage daughter he is tired of having to feed and one with a teenage boy w...
Celebrities make the same stupid choices and mistakes the rest of us do. A lot of celebrities have committed crimes like drinking while driving, soliciting prostitutes, and doing illegal drugs. And so...
Every little kid growing up watching the Star Wars movies wishes he or she could visit the exotic locations that Luke, Han, Anakin, Leia, and Padme get to experience. Flying through space in the Mil...
Regardless of skin color, age, or weight, every woman has the capacity to be sexy, even if she doesn't fit on that scale of beauty American society has created: you know, the scale of one to ten with ...
Do you remember actress Karin Dor? She appeared in the Alfred Hitchcock movie Topaz and briefly in the James Bond film You Only live Twice. In that movie, Dor played Helga Brandt, a member of SPECTR...
When Star Wars opened in 1977, the world was changed forever. It is difficult to find any special effects wizard, costume designer, matte painter, model maker, etc. who was a child in the late sevent...
We all know the story of John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, and his propensity to eat with his hands while gambling. Grab a pile of meat, use some bread instead of a plate, and instantly a ph...