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Lutherean Silliness Martin Luther Martin Luther is without a doubt one of the most important persons in the history of the Wester...

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

Evasions De Man and  Avoiding Responsibility Paul de Man The late Paul de Man was one of the most influential Postmoderni...

Atlas Bored to Tears Book Cover In My last post I made fun of a character in Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Surely one of the wor...

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

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...

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

Freedom and Doublethink A Note Athenian Voting Machine Freedom is possibly the most important political value we have in conte...

Going Nowhere Ktesias - Conman Conmen and fraudsters have been the bane of human existence for thousands of years but perhaps one ...

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

The Killer Ape Part II The Fossil Evidence     Australopithecines at Home In a previous posting I discussed the idea of man bei...

Original Sin Redux The Killer Ape Theory Part 1 Scene from 2001 A Space Odyssey One of the most delicious of intellectual...

Finding Odin  The God Odin  In several postings I have reffered to the works of Thor Heyerdahl and in particular I mentioned ...

Anonymous Idiocy Anonymous Movie Poster  I do not review movies I’ve never seen. However in the case of Anonymous 1 I have a few things...

Ender Meets Hamlet Book Cover This is one of those WTF!1 discoveries that make life interesting and annoying at the same time. I...

Stupid Grammar Tricks No Caption Needed This short little note about grammar is not about the basic rules of language that regulate how...