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The Theocratic Age; or, The last days of the American Republic

by Joe Palmer

[ november 07 ]

"Our popular, accepted, received way of presenting arguments today gets lost in hyperbole and irony. We expect contention as the right of free people, and so we make our case by lying and cheating."

Holy Code, Bloody Grail

review by David V Barrett

The unstoppable rise and rise of Dan Brown's incredibly bad book.

Independent spin

by Robert Philbin

[ november 07 ]

Winding down in Iraq, or cranking up for Iran?

Monkey’s biographer writes from Beijing

by Stephen Chan

[ october 07 ]

"[Beijing] is the vengeance of the demon kings, as day succeeds day, and the visitor chokes to death and the resident thinks foulness is normal."

Gulf of Tonkin redux?

by Paul Rogat Loeb

[ october 07 ]

It's still not too late to re-empt the next war

Pope Benedict XVI & Latin

by Joe Palmer

[ september 07 ]

The Mass is a not a magic trick. It is an art form.

Surplus will

by Tom Bradley

[ august 07 ]

The fiction of Andrew Gallix.

The true religion

by Joe Palmer

[ june 07 ]

"The ancient philosophers tell us that no philosophy will clear up the mystery of Being. We have been brainwashed by madmen to think otherwise. The uttering of religious bullshit might just be the Original Sin."

Earthy words

by Joe Palmer

[ may 07 ]

"Isabella, you have asked me, your great-grandfather, what I have learned during my long life. Like ice and snow, I am only one of the many forms of water, as polluted as any lake or stream. When they take out the water at my cremation, only salt, dust, ashes and my gold teeth will remain."

Dark matters: the baleful lustre of the Litvinenko affair

by Noel Rooney

[ march 07 ]

"Litvinenko's shape-shifting faculty equals, and even surpasses, that of polonium. There is of course his transformation from athletic and good-looking young man to the emaciated icon of his deathbed portrait; but there is more."