CONTRARY BRIN

== Another summons to resigned despair == Conspiracy theories abound.  They erupt out of human nature, it seems, and your ethnicity or ...

As one who nurses a few conspiracy theories of his own -- but only ones that fit the Seven Secret Rules of Plausibility ;-) -- I actually fi...

To what extent is the world filled with conniving villains and dastardly plots... and how much of it erupts from our fertile imaginations...

MEME WAR REDUX This will be one of my super-wide perspectives on cultures in conflict, comparing confrontations of the past (the Cold Wa...

The political lamp is lit Larry Brilliant says:  Here is a really scary poll of 93 countries, on their view of US leadership: "Do you...