Did, as Keats claimed, Newton destroy the beauty of the rainbow by unweaving it? Helen Fisher doesn’t think so:

I have been reading way too much politics recently but I have been making a special effort to read people that I would not normally agree with. It makes it all the more affirming when I do find something that … Continue reading →

Now to make you feel better again… Y’all got all the questions right? Right?

Life good? Things going well? Feeling great about yourself? This’ll fix that:

Jon Stewart was at his very best this week. The McCain bio was a bit more vicious than the Obama one though.

In the newspaper that Americans like to call The Times of London, my favourite Rabbi writes a rather thoughtful article about how The Argument from Design was never a very good argument anyway. So, while Darwin’s marvellous idea may have … Continue reading →

She is Hillary’s ideological opposite. But she is her gynaecological twin.

Clearly Kate is much too smart to make a mistake like that. Continue reading →

Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall. She sees the bartender in a pool of blood, Cries out, my god, they killed them all! Here comes the story of the hurricane, The … Continue reading →