Yearly Archives: 2008

Talking Hawking

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Stephen Hawking makes for an improbable celebrity. He hardly moves at all, and he tends not to make any noise. If you...

Game, Sex and Match

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Wimbledon must rank as the most eccentric of sporting events. Strawberries and cream, Pimms and Lemonade, sporting outfits designed to look like evening...

Actors that Run

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Actors can act lots of different things. They can act happy, sad, horny, drunk, even Irish. On queue, they will laugh, cry,...

What Can the Matter Be, Shami Chakrabarti?

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This post is about Shami Chakrabarti. If you are interested in current affairs, and live in the UK, and are not just pretending...

Save the Emo

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I was at the Reading Festival (a music festival in Reading, Berkshire, England - not a festival about reading books) a few years ago,...

Oil’s Well That Ends Well

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A few thousand years ago, God and the Devil were winding down after a day of hard negotiation on the Heaven and Hell Entrance...

Internet Immortals

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Art and immortality go hand in hand. Artists aspire to escape their own inevitable end by creating something that will live on. ...

Death and Taxes

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Inheritance tax is the tax that seemingly everyone hates. Wherever you look, you cannot find a politician who argues for it. They...

Mildew, My Lord?

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The Bible is a popular book, no doubt about it. It may well be the most popular book of all time. Which...

The Worst Form of Government?

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Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is...

Uncharitable Celebrity

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Celebrity. It is part of the solution to all problems. That and raising awareness. Child starving in Africa? Then better...

Namesake Donations

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Namesakes are problematic. If you have the same name as another person, you somehow get linked to them in people's minds, even though...
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This website showcases content created by Eric Priezkalns, who also uses the pen name Ray Blank when writing science fiction. It includes stories, essays, poems, short films and audio recordings.

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