Remembering Michael

Today, after another highly successful day at the office, I thought I’d saunter across the road to JB Hifi at lunchtime to see whether the rumour was true that stocks of Michael Jackson CDs were selling like hot cakes and (according to news reports) there might not be any left at all due to unprecedented [...]

The Population Bombs

This is guest post from Tony..
In 1968 Paul Erlich, an American biologist, wrote a book entitled The Population Bomb, in which he predicted large-scale human catastrophe as a consequence of overpopulation. Echoing his ideological predecessor Thomas Malthus, Erlich wrote:
The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of [...]

Midweek Mayhem!

Looks like reb & joni forgot about our midweek thread of madness, so I thought I’d better put one up for those of us missing the general randomness of the discussion that follows…
I can’t rant like reb can, nor do I have anything really newsworthy to pass on. So I decided to post an interesting [...]