One of my new favourite blogs, Secular Right, has an open thread on Ayn Rand. I have never met a real life objectivist but the ones I have come across online have been batshit crazy and they are always engaged … Continue reading →

Among the small thrills of encountering canonical works for the first time – Homer, say, or the King James Bible, or Star Wars – are the moments when you come across some turn of phrase so well-used it has been … Continue reading →

This may well be the first time that someone from the other side has shown any sign of understanding my opposition to the Iraq War. As many war supporters pointed out, then and now, there were all sorts of positive … Continue reading →

Skepticblog has some nice speculation – starting with this video which claims that, whatever aliens look like, they certainly won’t look like us. Richard Dawkins wades into the argument to make the case for convergent evolution. Convergent evolution is the … Continue reading →