The Perkins Migration Transition Corollary – Stage 6
A historian of the old-school, we see ourselves as a student of humane letters, not a social scientist. That said, we have also had the...
Interrogation Transcript
The following interview was extracted under duress and the use of a truth serum. What follows may be a form of torture to our readers as...
The Enduring D-Art-h of Parody
I sometimes think that parody is a higher art form than the original. Not that it is artistically better, necessarily, but that it...
A Word both Compelling and Unpopular
I encountered a new word today – gnomic. The term first appears in 1815 to describe “a style of writing (or sometimes speech)...
Ridiculous Things that have Somehow Remained Funny #17
Is it possible for a song about armpit farts to be truly funny? Yes! Sometimes things that are funny to a teenage boy cease to be funny...
“Are You a Good Witch, or a Bad Witch?”
Harry: So light a fire! Hermione: Yes... of course... but there's no wood! Ron: HAVE YOU GONE MAD! ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT! From: Harry...
