Raising doubts to power and other meditations on barbarism

Friday, 10 February 2012

The Sheep and the Goats

Brad Peterson asked his teacher friends (both real and virtual) for the quote that best summed up fo...

Wednesday, 18 January 2012

Plato Meets Snoop Dogg

While having breakfast we just happened to overhear a song by Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa called "You...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

The Meaning of Life

For the time being we are expending our energies elsewhere, developing a site dedicated to the ideas of Albert Camus, that great philosopher...

Tuesday, 13 December 2011

The Biggest Question

The story is not recent, but it still helps to illustrate the biggest question. It was a sunny Wed...

Friday, 2 December 2011

Occupying the mind

No criticism of the Occupy Movement intended. Just highlighting the point that there will be no real...

Saturday, 26 November 2011

When is an egg not an egg?

Answer: When it is a political act. On the 25 of September 2011 Marina Demetriades took aim at the...

Thursday, 24 November 2011

It's like a jungle out there...

The police use pepper spray against peaceful protesters at the University of California. A histor...

Monday, 21 November 2011

Lady Gaga and the ape

During my TV dinner I just caught a glimpse of Lady Gaga presenting a book of photos (photos of her...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011

The Happy Shopper

It seems that some people in rooms adjoining the corridors of power are arguing about the ends of s...

Monday, 14 November 2011

A history lesson in the chicken pen

Too many chickens turned out to be cockerels. There were three of them. Two too many. They had to g...