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In an attempt to illustrate what philosophers know as a syllogism (i.e. a statement of comparison between two terms that does not ...

And the baboon, almost a man, or almost a high beast, arrested himself and became obscene;  a grey, hoary rind closed upon an acti...

Corruption , writes Nietzsche, is merely a nasty word for the autumn of a people .  That is to say, corruption is a term which, whi...

  Hanns Johst (1890 - 1978) When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver! This oft-quoted line - commonly, but mistak...

People, cattle and vultures all enjoying the benefits  of an informal economy I recently attended an interesting talk given b...

James Garner (1928 - 2014)  as Jim Rockford in The Rockford Files The Rockford Files is one of those '70s American TV shows th...

Photo by Matt Stuart (2011) geoffdyer.com Someone - not quite a friend, but not, I think, someone motivated by any real enmity ei...

Club Choronzon 333 , by deadguy333 www.deviantart.com According to Pythagoras, three is the first genuine number - as well as the fi...

Still from The Simpsons episode 19, season 7 © 20th Century Fox Film Corp. It's amazing to observe how, after forty-odd yea...

Film poster by renowned Italian artist Arnaldo Putzu (1927 - 2012) One of the films that made happy as a child was shown yesterday ...