“According to one military expert on global terror, we’re at the outset of a war that could last 40 years. Here are four bold strategies to help you adjust to this new reality — and make sure that we win the war.” Interesting Read
The US needs to (1) snap out of denial, (2) change [...]
“In the old days, the good guys wore white. Now Hollywood’s villains are turning pale, and real-life albinos are crying foul as movies like The Matrix: Reloaded arrive with a fresh supply of pigment-challenged bad guys.
The silver-clad, dreadlocked Matrix villains known as The Twins are the latest Hollywood incarnations of pale-skinned people as evil [...]
“Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on [...]
“Laypeople frequently assume that in a political dispute the truth must lie somewhere in the middle, and they are often right. In a scientific dispute, though, such an assumption is usually wrong.” - Paul Ehrlich
!The elderly Iraqi farmer who, according to Baghdad officials, literally shot his way to fame by downing a state-of-the-art US Apache helicopter with an old carbine has flatly denied he had anything to do with the crash.”
I have been had my the Iraqi Information Minister yet again!
“Most mysticism is, in scientific terms, mush. Yet the mystic’s experience of wonder may in fact be the same animating spirit that lies behind science”
I have just e-mail the author of the superb Fallacy Files website as I am hoping he can help me with a problem. Perhaps you can too. Here is what I wrote:
I am hoping you can help me name a practice, namely that of using appealing to something only to destroy the thing you appealed [...]
‘I had a dream last night, Siggy.’
‘Ja?’
‘It was you and me together skipping in a field. Und then this great serpent appeared and slithered into a cave.’
‘Du lieber gott! Do you know what you are saying to me? Do you know what zis serpent means?’
‘Ja, it is some manifestation of the World-Spirit.’
‘Dummkopf! It is my [...]
Demodex folliculorum, or the demodicid, is a tiny mite, less than 0.4 mm long, that lives in your pores and hair follicles, usually on the nose, forehead, cheek, and chin, and often in the roots of your eyelashes.
(A follicle is the pore from which a hair grows). Demodicids have a wormlike appearance, with legs [...]
Winnie “Necklace” Mandela has been convicted of fraud. She has been sentenced to 5 years in prison. There is some justice left in South Africa.
“Together, hand in hand, with that stick of matches, with our necklace, we shall liberate this country.” Winnie Mandela (b. 1934), Speech in black townships. Quoted in Guardian (London, April [...]