The stupid, it burns.

We all know that religion and stupidity go hand in hand. They’re bed-buddies, BFF’s, a binary system interchangeable at a moment’s notice. Not all stupid things are however religious and sometimes we just have admit that nitwittedness is a given even when mindless superstition is not there egging it on. I’ve touched on a few … Continue reading →

The Great Escape.

For some people its bonsais. For others it might be music, peering through a telescope, or perhaps even at the end of a paintbrush where their minds best run free. For me it’s letting my thoughts roam through the Palaeolithic. It sounds odd, sure, but inside this enigmatic 6,000 generation-long window we naked apes pulled … Continue reading →

Narcissism

nar·cis·sism  [nahr-suh-siz-em] noun 1. Inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity.Synonyms: self-centeredness, smugness, egocentrism. Narcissism: It’s a cornerstone of the Yahwehian religions that have the audacity to claim their god made man in his own image. That is in due course to assume their god has an equal number of hairs as a chimpanzee, albeit ours are finer so as to give the impression of … Continue reading →

Smile! We’re all Alice wandering around Wonderland.

Where does it all come from? Where does it all go? What’s over there? What’s in here? What the fuck is that, and what’s it doing on my nose? Questions, love them or hate them they’re ours, and without them we clever little naked apes would never have invented the sandwich let alone built a … Continue reading →

The Superstitious Naked Ape

It was the zoologist, Desmond Morris, who first called our species the ‘naked ape;’ a moniker no doubt uncomfortable or even offensive to some but given the wafer-thin 1.5% genetic difference separating us from our more coarsely haired cousins a near perfect description and one perhaps only made more accurate by adding the superstitious, or … Continue reading →

It’s the end of the world….. Again!

Unremarkably, the beginning of the end of the world did not hit the ground running at 6am on the 21st of May, 2011, and neither did it all start to unravel 153 days later on the 21st of October; two dates the Christian radio broadcaster, Harold Camping, was certain some ghastly goose-stepping sky being was … Continue reading →