I found Madness Explained in the Coop Bookshop where I went to shop because I had a voucher. I think I originally planned to buy something else, I can’t remember what, but in any case, it wasn’t there and this book was. As usual I spent more than the voucher allowed me too. I couldn’t […]
Category: Reviews
Reviews of things I have read or seen
The God Delusion
I have a friend who regularly reads books about the mind and consciousness, hoping to find scientific proof of the existence of the soul. He’s an educated man, the type Richard Dawkins claims is increasingly becoming atheist and I think he thinks he probably should. But he’s invariably disappointed when each new writer he discovers […]
Celebrity Politicians
I started thinking about celebrities and politics watching Team America, the movie that ridicules everything yet somehow ends by vindicating Hollywood’s happy endings and America’s strong arm tactics on the world stage. Kim Jong Il, after all, turns out to be a sentient trilobite from another planet and fortunately, the dicks are there to save […]