Continue Reading Free Association One of my important goals in life is to be rational. I’ve always found irrationality to be a threat, leading to various…
Continue Reading Sailing away When my father was young and wild, cooped up in a small town in Lower Saxony, sweeping and cleaning the lab of…
Continue Reading The Sights of San Diego I spent a terrific weekend in San Diego. Will report on several aspects throughout the week, starting today with what I picked…
Continue Reading Propaganda Films Today I will keep it short – between the tragedy in Barcelona and the insanity coming out of the White House and…
Continue Reading The Partition of Hindustan 70 years ago this August the colonial powers divided what was known as Hindustan into two entities – India and Pakistan. One…
Continue Reading Dead Meat No, the title is not a description of my current state – it is the pointer to today’s topic of propaganda: the…
Continue Reading Don’t be a Sucker Propaganda and Psychological Warfare, a classic written by Terence Qualter in the 1960s, defines propaganda as the deliberate attempt by some individual or group to…
Continue Reading The Berlin Wall Yesterday, August 13, was the 56th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall. In contrast to the US where current wall-…
Continue Reading Friday’s Question Seems like wherever I look I see stuff published on the upcoming eclipse. The science end, the mythology angle, the aspect of…
Continue Reading Thursday’s Question When I came across this treasure trove, conveniently offered to you in the link below, I was embarrassed to the point of…
