Category Archives: History

A Demagogue’s Durr-cree: Ballot Determines Biology!

Reading about black American preachers urging their flocks to keep their bleating away from the ballot box gave me a warm glow inside, some two weeks back. Faced with the Hobson’s choice between an adherent to a historically negrophobic Christian … Continue reading

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“Homo Sapiens? Really?”

One of my latest literary acquisitions has been both a source of extreme interest and extreme aggravation. Written sometime in the mid-eighties, Gerald B. Lorentz’s Homo, 99 and 44/100% Nonsapiens combines history, (mis)anthroplogy, Social (and biological) Darwinism, determinism, eugenics, and … Continue reading

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Season’s Bleatings and Heathen’s Greetings…

As an atheist, and a bloke with a rudimentary grasp of history, I always break out a smirk when Christfolk wail about materialism and hedonism drowning out the “true meaning” of the season; seeing as how the preceding pagan festivities … Continue reading

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“Sieg Hallow!” or “Unhappy Halloween!”?

A browse through my Facebook groups brought a post from Sociological Images to my attention; the following pic was the talking point (before it was removed)… Predictably, condemnation saturated the tone of Lisa Wade’s post, which castigated the troublesome trio … Continue reading

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300:The Aesthetics, The Politics, The Ethics…..

Got around to seeing 300 last week. A decent-enough film on a superficial level – I enjoyed it, but it can’t hold a candle to Sin City (another Miller adaptation) or Dawn of the Dead 2004 (Zack Snyder‘s previous work). … Continue reading

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A Non-Violent Human Nature!? The Case of MRDA Against Myopic Martin

Leafing through the Metro newspaper last week, I came across the following quote, attributed to one Martin Kurlansky in promotion of his new book: The big problem faced by the military—and they won’t thank me for saying this—is that it’s … Continue reading

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Prince Harry, Knee-Jerk Reactionaries and using Fascism to fight Fascism.

It seems that if you drop a pebble in the mid-Pacific, the ripple radius’ll reach as far as San Fran and Okinawa. Seriously, didn’t anyone find the furore raised over the Prince Harry faux pas just plain fucking ridiculous? He … Continue reading

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