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Now and then I notice masses of humans acting or speaking in unusual ways, asking the same question, looking for the same obscure piece of information, or whatever. Once in a while these trends can be explained by something that appeared in the popular press or on TV or whatever, but most of the time there is no apparent connection. And sometimes such minor trends can be explained by the phase of the Moon; the correlation between the Moon and emotional state has been known for millennia. But that ...

September is almost over, and I eagerly await October, because I am already in Halloween mode.

So here is my annual list of October/Halloween reading:

Glimmering by Elizabeth Hand

The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro - I loved his movie Pan's Labyrinth and when I first heard him talking about this book on the Daily Show I was super excited about it, and now of course I am into the TV series.

The Maze Runner by James Dashner - Not scary ...

I may have had an epiphany recently, but I’m not all together sure what an epiphany is. There was a beautiful example of bogons doing what they do, stopping things from working around persons afflicted with bogosity. And I realized that it often is a sign of an intellectual lack, which wasn’t a surprise in itself, but I also noticed that the particular variety of intellectual deficiency is marked by a lack of understanding of sequential events. More specifically, there is a tendency to speak in ...

An investigation by the World Value Survey discovered that India and Jordan top the list of the least racially tolerant countries on the planet. As an African living in the former for over a year, I have witnessed a number of such incidents. Indians, particularly northerners, associate colour with higher or lower social standing. Needless to say, the lighter colour is held in esteem, while the dark in contempt or as “low caste”. It has been happening for so long and itching for sometimes. I often ...

Should it be an intelligence play?

Supposing that America invaded Iraq at 2003 under the pretext of WMD, why does America not invade Iran, which really has WMD?
Supposing it under the pretext of releasing people from tyranny, why does America not go to Syria and releasing Syrians from their dictatorship?
Many questions are ready in each one's mind to ask and if each one will rethink, giving to his mind back in the eye of reality to all incidents and gearing up ...