Blessed Madness

It's been a damn long time since I was up to blogging; having finally been moved to return to a project I thought might have been aband...

Most people seem to more or less live their life under the assumption that their purpose is to be happy; they might define their own happin...

In most countries, making threats is a crime.  But why?  Say for instance that I tell my friend Gus (I have no actual friends by this name...

Science fiction writer Jerry Pournelle once concocted a bit of wisdom which I've come to endorse quite heavily, which he called the Iro...

We as a society decided quite some time ago that we were uncomfortable with notions like socio-economic classes, hereditary castes, feudal...

Consider this hypothetical scenario.  Having somehow come into ownership of a scrap of land which is not part of any country, state, count...

I originally wrote this bit in September, and while the Gamergate scandal is pretty much old news by now, it'll only keep getting older...