Not so random, obviously, but it offers a concise title. Herewith pith: “The giveaway of ideology is emotional hostility to skeptics.” For fans of bulletin board systems, I’m enclosing this appeal from Stephen Jones of SDF: So .. What can you do to help? We need largish SATA drives. If you have spares, email me [...]
Or, on hoaxes and skeptics and believers. Report from Iron Mountain, Griffin, Shermer, etc & et al. The hidden message. “I want you to know, that I know about this conspiracy, and I am now in its service.” (Griffin as Clinton). Could it be that a conspiracy theory is that theory which best fits the [...]
You’ll possibly remember my brief mention of Sunstein in a January post. We should ban speech of certain types? Sunstein must not have much faith in democratic man to decide what’s what; I can’t say I blame him, although again I suspect that’s not his motivation. Rather, I’d hazard that the decentralized, most-everyone-has-a-say nature of [...]
Following on my list of top ten fiction books below, something easy for Super Bowl Sunday, lost in the shuffle. Like my fiction list, this is in no analytical order. Some are footnoted research tomes, some are long riffs on a subject, all are good, of course. 1. Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago (Royko) [...]