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One of the curious things that we noticed in the United States was that no one is really political. See, everyone agrees. Sure, the Republicans mention God throughout their speeches instead of just citing him at the end like Democrats and Democrats talk alot about peace while raising military spending and the Republicans just raise [...]

So over the last few weeks I saw quite a few barnstorming films and I thought I would inflict my half-brained opinions about them on you because you dolts seem to lap this crap up.
The Dark Knight
Firstly, I saw The Dark Knight, a film notable for being able to live up to the [...]

Ever since I actually started working for a church people are much slower to talk to me about God and faith and spirituality and stuff like that. This saddens me so much that sometimes I think it might be worth going back to a marketplace job.
When people do actually dare to risk the inevitably obnoxious, [...]

In the rip-roaring movie adaptation of Prince Caspian, a daring night-time raid is made on the castle of the Calormen Telarmarines. It was only in re-reading Narnia over the summer that I remembered the stand out feature of that novel that gets no coverage in the book. It’s interesting.
When the lion, Aslan, returns to Narnia [...]

Like an idiot entering the Olympics trials because it doesn’t look so hard when other people do it, I am back reading philosophy. This time it is Slavoj Zizek and I hope that by starting with political philosophy I will slide right into the harder stuff he has waiting for me.
I love “Welcome To The [...]

In college, my dear friend Teragram was Captain Democracy. She battled government ministers live on the telly about e-voting machines and their limitless stupidity. I was made Vote-boy, her able sidekick, egging her on to do stupid things on Questions and Answers.
Both of us love XKCD. This comic explains why:

Your Correspondent, Has 12 boxes [...]

One of the greatest American films of the last ten years is Boys Don’t Cry. It makes me feel old that it is nine years old but it is the tragic tale of a transgendered man living in the Deep South. The director, Kimberly Peirce disappeared after this and went away.
When she came back, no [...]

In the 1600s, led by the Jesuits, about 10% of Japan had converted to Christianity. The whole region of Daimos converted.
The Tokugawa exterminated this population.
Your Correspondent, Like, totally loves, like, historical curiosities, ya know

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1918-2008.
Your Correspondent, Agrees that “a great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country”.

When you are on holiday it is hard to keep up with your reading lists. I have no idea what is happening back home or whether Man City have signed an amazing new defensive midfielder and my unread RSS feed is now so long, Google don’t have a number big enough to describe it.
That [...]