In the intelligence business, there are a few sayings that are very thought provoking ( Read more... )

Thought implies distinction between a thinker and an object of thought. There is an essential division between the contemplator and the contemplated ( Read more... )

The food smells of sulfur.

I expect this has something to do with the field trip you all went on.

Cultural traditions and holidays are often standalone complexes, copies without an actual original. Halloween is one that springs immediately to mind. Modern holidays seem less focused on spirituality and community than on consumerism, which a late twentieth-century writer dubbed "the bastard child of capitalism and fascism ( Read more... )