Before! Kabul had an InterContinental. Sweet hotel chain. Looks pretty damn dope in the postcard. But alas, there was a Cold War and the t...

Amen, man. And truly, for sooth! Because of the "Drug War", America has the highest prison population percentage wise in the wor...

Only in Europe! Cowboy Reagan riding a cruise missile. Totally not phallic, but rather emblematic of the "freedom by gun" princi...

Sadly, it is no isolated incident. Killing children either by crazed loner with guns or nations with armies, or gangs with lust, or tribes...

Click for big if you can't read the text. Wise words, and it puts things in perspective. A True perspective, but then you'll find ...

Alas, Jeremy A. Shapiro, I doubt your reservation to any of these destinations will be met within your lifetime. What once seemed an inevi...

A few things: As long as there is scarcity of resources, Communism cannot work in the large scale. If there were no scarcity of resources ...

ROLL HARD This is a real thing - a graphic novel published by and about Blackwater heroics in Iraq. Sadly, a non-ironic review of it at ...

That's some serious spreadsheet. Lots of data. Jealous? Curious? You should be - what could be so interesting that requires so many pa...

Hi, Gary? Yeah, Phil here from Random House. Yeah, yeah, look, I've just been assigned to edit your book, and the folks upstairs have ...

Poor Uranus. It's a lovely planet - an Ice Giant with more water than all the water on Earth times 1000 or even more. And yet, forever...

Click for huge! Your humble blogger went to London way, way back in 2004. I loved everything about London, and especially the British Libr...

Behold! The most mysterious manuscript of all time (to date): The Voynich Manuscript . It's clearly a language, but no one has ever tr...

Arabic calligraphy in the form of Jules and Vincent, Marsellus Wallace henchmen. I'm Team Jules, FYI. The Arabic script seems intrin...

Click for big. Some brave soul put the movie "Pulp Fiction" - famously known to be out of order - into a very informative, chron...

As you can see on slide 3, there will be 7 years of seals, trumpets, and bowls after the Rapture but before the Return of Christ - in Glor...