IF DEVIANT RELIGIONS ("RELIGIONS?") INTEREST YOU...... this guide to a thousand links about scientology ought to be in your file. As a sometime teacher of a course in "the psychology of religion" the proprietor of this blog more than welcomes this guide to the strange world created by L.Ron Hubbard and his inheritors.
WHO OR WHAT WOKE UP THE REPUBLICANS? This broadside from their National Committee may be a sign that something like two-party government (or, at least, two-party discussion) may be stirring as the post-election reactive depression begins to fade.
THE WOMEN'S REVOLUTION IN IRAN......is what historians may ultimate call it. This column by Anne Applebaum of the Washington Post does properly highlight how the oppressed majority (Iranian women) comprise the propelling force to which the Shia theocracy must ultimately yield.
IS "LYING SCIENTIST" AN OXYMORON? Apparently not...and here are brief reviews of a few books that lay out the details of some major scientific frauds. And then there was the case of Sir Cyril Burt. You don't know about that one? Google it instantly!
BIG BROTHER COMES TO DETROIT.....and Mark Steyn considers the consequences while asking what Mrs. Thatcher would have done (in fact, did do) under comparable circumstances. Meanwhile let's try to remember the cars and corporations of yesteryear (i.e. ten years ago).
OUR MUSICAL OFFERING TODAY......is a great find: nothing less than Beethoven's Ninth Symphony recorded in 1935 by Felix Weingartner with the Vienna Philharmonic. In fact, this is a quite creditable performance and the vocal soloists in the fourth movement are superb.
WHO OR WHAT WOKE UP THE REPUBLICANS? This broadside from their National Committee may be a sign that something like two-party government (or, at least, two-party discussion) may be stirring as the post-election reactive depression begins to fade.
THE WOMEN'S REVOLUTION IN IRAN......is what historians may ultimate call it. This column by Anne Applebaum of the Washington Post does properly highlight how the oppressed majority (Iranian women) comprise the propelling force to which the Shia theocracy must ultimately yield.
IS "LYING SCIENTIST" AN OXYMORON? Apparently not...and here are brief reviews of a few books that lay out the details of some major scientific frauds. And then there was the case of Sir Cyril Burt. You don't know about that one? Google it instantly!
BIG BROTHER COMES TO DETROIT.....and Mark Steyn considers the consequences while asking what Mrs. Thatcher would have done (in fact, did do) under comparable circumstances. Meanwhile let's try to remember the cars and corporations of yesteryear (i.e. ten years ago).
OUR MUSICAL OFFERING TODAY......is a great find: nothing less than Beethoven's Ninth Symphony recorded in 1935 by Felix Weingartner with the Vienna Philharmonic. In fact, this is a quite creditable performance and the vocal soloists in the fourth movement are superb.
