Gorgeous Japanese Woman I used to know this Japanese woman in her mid sixties. You could tell that when she was younger, she must have been absolutely, drop dead gorgeous. She told me once about her husband. When I met her, her husband had already died. But he would love hanging out in these […]
Pending Retail Apocalypse
Who Invented Bowling? Bowling is a weird sport. A friend called and invited me to go bowling with him and a couple other friends. I hadn’t gone bowling in a while so I figured what the hey. The bowling alley was in a mall. I hadn’t been to a mall in a while […]
Origins Of The Gods
Learning Center I went to an interesting lecture a couple of nights ago at a local learning center. The topic was the history of written language. It was only an hour, but the guy who taught went through a really quick bullet point overview, which was fascinating. Reading and writing are things we […]
Jesus Origin Story
A Walk In The Park I just moved to a new neighborhood. There are lots of parks, and there’s this one walking path that kind of snakes it way through all of them. It’s a cement path for both walking and biking. Most of the parks are long and narrow. They are kind of […]
Editorial Magic
Invention of Writing Without question, one of the most profound inventions of human history was written language. Humans have been able to speak and think for at least 50,000 years, but written language has only been around for a few thousand. This means that for most of human history, our thoughts and words were […]
Gossip, Rumors And Deadly Instincts
Find The Leaker There is a very common trope found in spy movies if you’re in charge of an organization and you suspect that somebody in your organization is leaking information there’s an easy way to find who the leak is. The first thing you do is you need to come up with several […]
Origins Of Wealth
Gangsters To Bankers The Medici family started out in the Middle Ages in Florence as a gangster family. A couple of them were hanged for their misdeeds. Within a couple of generations later they had become the most powerful banking families in Europe. One of the best prototypical rags to riches story of wealth […]
Eternal Battles And Your Soul
Protestant Reformation One of the biggest challenges that came to the Catholic Church came in the Middle Ages with the Protestant Reformation. This represented a huge market share challenge to the Catholic Church because up until that point the Catholic Church was the most powerful entity in Europe. They had a lot of power […]
Subliminal Demonic Possession
Paranormal Radio Show The other night I was driving through the desert and I was listening to this very strange radio show, call in radio show about a lot of paranormal type stuff. I had listened to the radio show before. They have a lot of interesting guests about paranormal activity in aliens and […]
Inoculation Against Demons
Economic Article I read an interesting article in an economic blog recently and it says that there is a sharp increase, or there has been a sharp increase in the number of exorcisms in the recent years. It had a couple of explanations as to why this is. The most common explanation is that […]