Every time I go to the gas station these days, I’m possessed by an unshakeable feeling of being cheaply used. As the gas prices fall precipitously (which, curiously, doesn’t quite make the news, with detailed analysis, quite like the prices going up did), I once again feel the sickening presentiment of shameless profiteering I had […]
Author: Mark Egge
Kennewick Man And The Caucasian Faux-Pas
Background information on Kennewick Man is available here. — When two men, watching boat races on a lazy July afternoon along the Columbia River, happened upon a set of exposed bones, it’s unlikely that they could have apprehended how important of an archaeological discovery they’d made, or the furor it would cause over the next […]
Batman Begins, the Flood Again
(14-Oct-06 – Draft 0) Batman Begins could very easily take the form of a modern reinterpretation (or retelling) of the Biblical story of the flood. Those more familiar with the Batman comics than I might point out that Old Testament stories are not unfamiliar to the series, such as in the “Tower of Babel” storyline. […]
North Korea – A Nuclear Poser?
Curiously, the wording of headlines concerning North Korea’s alleged nuclear detonation are exactly that– the possibility or claim of a nuclear blast. The Western media has been very remained insistent that North Korea may have detonated a nuclear bomb– despite the adamant insistence by the Russian Military that it was, in fact, a nuclear blast. […]
Name that picture
This week’s contest: What is this an image of? The contest runs … until I post next?