All my life I have tried to live in an ivory tower. But a sea of shit has......
Rescuing reality and/or History | Karl Marx and religion | “Opium of the people”
I wish I had a dollar for every time I've seen Karl Marks reported to have called religion the "opium of the people."
Rescuing the Future | The attack on Salman Rushdie | his book Joseph Anton
The attack on Salman Rushdie yesterday......was a shock to me, but not a surprise.
Rescuing History | The Last Train from Hiroshima
To those who would say that we should not subject young people to the horrors of this story, I say “What about the children of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?”
Autism | Do you sometimes feel like a fish out-of-water? | Maybe you’re just a fish in the wrong pond, or maybe……….
I hope you'll see that you too are free to think your way forward to a rewarding path that is uniquely your own.
Autism | Science Daily | Brains of children with autism may not always ‘see’ body language
This looks to me like a sign that science is catching up to the reality of autism.
Rescuing Fiction and Non-Fiction | Darius Foroux and his 100 books for you to read.
What I'm going to give you here is not all of Foroux's 100 recommended books (there will be a link to them at the end), only those of the 100 that I have read, and why I think you should, or shouldn't read them. Here's my selection: (1) Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. One of Rome's … Continue reading Rescuing Fiction and Non-Fiction | Darius Foroux and his 100 books for you to read.
Rescuing the Future | The January 6 hearings limp on | why we should be patient
Beware of these people who keep saying that the problem is the polarization of beliefs.
Rescuing Nature | the Return of Cecil | when hunting goes bad
From time to time I defend hunting on this site, as I did in my post this week about wild pigs. But that doesn't mean I defend all hunting. This week I learned we have reached the 7th anniversary of the death of Cecil, the famous male lion in Zimbabwe shot by a paying trophy … Continue reading Rescuing Nature | the Return of Cecil | when hunting goes bad
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