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Embattled Journey One of the most interesting phenomena in the last couple of decades is the rise of Japanese Manga in the West. In fact...

Epstein's Folly Sacsayhuaman I have in the past discussed the woo writer and all round fringe thinker Graham Hancock1. Here I w...

Fantasy and Scholarship A Case Study 19th Century Tin Cans In two previous posts I talked about the infamous Franklin Expedition1...

Causes of the American Civil War A Brief Note Image of Battle From the American Civil War Debates about the causes of the Ame...

Lady Heather's Complaint Lady Heather (Melinda Clarke) Lady Heather  was a character in the long running show CSI. She st...

Journalism as It Should Not Be Janet Malcolm and Jeffrey MacDonald Janet Malcolm  The following is an expansion of a comment I...

Maleficent & Frozen Two Stories of Sismance1 Movie Poster Spoilers!! Recently Disney gave us two different stories b...

Diluted Delusions A Very Brief Look at Homeopathy In the late 19th century the German Doctor Samuel Hahnemann devised, or more...

The O. J. Simpson Fiasco    Simpson Murder Scene   It has been 20 years since Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were brutal...

Revenge Fantasy The Left Behind Books Part I The Background – Hating America First Book of the Left Behind series Almost 20 ye...

Perry Mason God’s Son Incarnate Raymond Burr has Perry Mason Between 1957 and 1966 there appeared on American TV screens the le...

A Silly Series of Lists Part 1 Last year Entertainment Weekly published a special issue called The 100 All-Time Greatest . The issue w...

Waiting for Godot The von Daniken Version of the Mayan Collapse Erich von Daniken In a previous posting I briefly reviewed Er...

The End Nevil Shute’s On the Beach Book and Films Book Cover In 1957 Nevil Shute, 1899-1960, 1 published his novel about the...

Homer and The Song of Roland Bust of Homer The following is a brief look at some of the anachronisms and errors in the Epic The S...

Love Story? Jonathan and David Anachronistic readings of ancient texts is one of the most annoying facets of reading such docume...

Wrong Note Title Card SPOILERS!!! The recent death of  James Gandolfin i1 reminded me of The Sopranos, 1999-2007 ;2 one of the...

Velikovsky Who? The Surface of Venus The following is a very brief review of the book  Carl Sagan and Immanuel Velikovsky by Ch...

The Consummate Hypocrite Thomas Jefferson A Very Brief Note Thomas Jefferson One of the best books I have ever read about Th...

“Witch Hunters” Manual Book Cover More than 500 years ago Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger wrote and published the Malleus Ma...