The Social Pathologist

I went out with a friend tonight to see the movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still. My advice to potential viewers, stay at home. Don't ev...

Over the past few days I've been over at Dennis Mangan's arguing that one cannot be a Conservative and an atheist at the same time:...

To my small band of readers , peace and goodwill to you all this Christmas time. For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given, and th...

I don't have White guilt and have always preferred civilization to savagery, light to darkness. Other civilizations have had their achie...

Some of the luminaries of the "Secular Conservative" fold have started a new blog site . Predictably religion was dissed almost im...

John Maynard Keynes was profoundly influential in the field of economics, which is a bit of a shame because some of what he said needed to ...

It's been a rather unsettling week, meditating on ugliness and disfigurement. I would like to end it on some thoughts with regard to pl...

Here's a link to a rather revolting You Tube video. For our more delicate readers, caution , it contains I suppose you could say sexua...

Its not very often that I read something that sends me into a bit of a rage. But anyway, this week I did. I will not link to the piece, sin...

Farnsworth house is truly beautiful architecture. Designed by Mies van der Rohe for a prominent urologist, Dr. Edith Farnsworth. The house i...

No it doesn't. Engineering is one of those fields where economy and efficiency of materials are highly prized. It, perhaps more than ar...

Imagine a wealthy landowner (A) who has a herd of 1000 cows. Suppose this landowner was old and pre-occupied and found it difficult to look ...

Courtesy Reserve Bank of Australia. Buckle up!

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H.L Mencken was right, democracy is the greatest show on earth. Yours truly has been following the financial meltdown and political process ...

Recently I've been reading about the Katyn Forest massacre. For those of you who aren't up to date with your World War Two history,...

I think that many of the moral problems that confound the average person have at their core a confusion between innocence and in culpability...

Several months ago there was a case over here which raised profoundly disturbing questions. A local convenience store attendant was attacked...

I like to visit Alias Clio's blog from time to time. Recently she has been running a series of "Nice Guy" posts. There well w...

A former Greenpeace founder gives his opinion on some of his former mates and thir policy ideas. I especially like the comment about policy ...