Daily Archives: May 25, 2004

The question of why our culture has a morbid fear of some insects (spiders, roaches, and locusts, for example) while cultures in, say, Africa do not, is an interesting one. In part, no doubt, it is due to the real threats … Continue reading →

We are forced to admit that President Bush’s address to the nation on his Iraq disengagement was pretty damn good, at least by his standards. Never a Praetorian orator, he has learned a trick or two over the years, and … Continue reading →