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After my arrival in Paris in 1962, I was exhilarated—among countless other things—by the possibility of purchasing and reading the original ...

I found this funny story in the excellent Pharyngula blog by PZ Myers [ access ] . The history of Catholicism is filled with magic happeni...

Friends assure me that, when you get addicted to golf, you can't get it out of your system, and you can't get enough of it. Come rai...

I don't claim to know the sense of the concept of "getting sex right". We humans, like many living creatures (those that explo...

When I was a teenager in Australia, a good way of insulting a fellow was to call him a dickhead . I must admit, though, that I never really ...

It often pays to memorize an important principle in the vivid form of a vulgar proverb. In Australia, where we've always had a healthy h...