First of all, go see The Golden Compass, right now. It has everything I love about the Enlightenment combined with everything I love about armored polar bears, aerial witch squadrons, steampunk technology, and Sam Elliott. Not seeing this movie would […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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As an early Christmas present, The Count got me a 1/6th Reichs Thaler coin that was minted during the reign of Frederick the Great. Specifically, the coin was minted in 1776. I don’t think I’ve ever owned something that might […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Harvard, sad to say, wasn’t always HARVARD. It spent a fair amount of its early history teaching young men not to rub themselves with street mutts by way of bathing and then conferring degrees in philosophy for the achievement. Thoreau […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Next week, we’ll be taking a break from our main story and presenting a Holiday Special. But fear not, gentle readers, for the quality of the Holiday Special will be as good or better as what you are accustomed to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Merry Dies Natalis Solis Invicti! At least that’s what you would be hearing (minus the Merry) if you happened to be around on December 25, 221 AD. The Romans had thought that the Solstice occurred on the 25th of December, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have known Geoff for about nine years, and The Rarebit Fiend is still probably the weirdest damn thing he has introduced me to. – Count Dolby von Luckner
While exiled on St. Helena, Napoleon waged a brilliant campaign of words to reinvent himself, recasting all of his old wars as essentially acts of grand philosophy intending to bring about an idealized community without borders. The war-hungry flesh-ripper was […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happy 2008. Prosperity baskets for all! –Geoff
In later life, Napoleon tried to pass off the planned invasion of Britain as a feint to pull attention away from his real plans with the Army of the Rhine. I don’t quite buy that one. At unheard-of expense, from […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The New Year of 2008 means that our web statistics have reset themselves to a pure, largely unvisited state. What entertains me most about the webstats is the “search keyphrases” section. So far, for all 48ish hours of 2008 we […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…