I want to take a moment to tell you all about some music I love.  I am a devotee of movie soundtracks.  I am particularly fond of two movie ...

I created this meme the other day... ...to be used in online debate when someone evades a sincere demand for answers. Just don'...

Here are a few of the fortunes I devised during my first week as a writer of fortunes at Trang's Fortune Cookies Ltd: YOU ARE CURREN...

Things have been weird for me lately.  In a bad way.  Personal stuff.  Worries.  Health issues.  Melancholia.  And other obsessions, plans, ...

"The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction" said William Blake in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell , and on lots...

Kant's categorical imperative is an expression of the bourgeois liberal ideas of the 18th century, expressed as morality.  It is progres...

The Olympics really depresses me.  Not just the horrendous waste of money and the revolting jingoism and the all-pervading ideological rei...

"Hurr hurr... You think this is the real Quaid?" Well it might be, thought the guard.   Then again it might not.  It might be Q...

Imperialism lies not just in the physical violence of invasion, domination, exploitation and subjugation, but also in the cultural violence ...

I always dimly assumed that Stephen Harris - whatever combination of real people he may pseudonymically represent - got the idea for a story...

Rewatching Star Wars is an odd experience. It's surprisingly dirty, grimey and grotty. It doesn't introduce the hero until a...

There is something very gothic about  Doctor Who , in the hauntological sense.  I mean that the show keeps on doing monsters that represent...

Perhaps the most interesting thing about 'Inferno' (interesting to me anyway) is the way that the fascist world of the Brigade Leade...