something for you to think about. as for me, oddly enough its an M-4 and a 30 round Mag

Image via Wikipedia From the Boston Globe: Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and whose books, such as “A People’s History of the United States,” inspired young and old to rethink the way textbooks present the American experience, died today in Santa [...]

I’ve previously mentioned how some mathematicians used maths to prove that the universe hates us and that maths could be the undoing/proof of free will. Both are fairly meta subjects, and not particularly useful unless you are a philosopher. Now maths have been applied to two very useful and tangible issues: romance and zombies.First, Romance: [...]

We the Living Dead – The convoluted politics of zombie cinema Ever since George Romero’s genre-creating Night of the Living Dead in 1968, and especially since Romero’s overtly political 1978 masterpiece Dawn of the Dead, highbrow revolutionary theorizing has stalked this graveyard of lowbrow pleasures. In his 1979 study The American Nightmare: Essays on the [...]

Recommended: Where There Is No Doctor The book can be viewed by chapter or downloaded for free here, and if one finds it useful enough it is also available for purchase in print on the same page. Don’t be put off by it’s apparent lack of “sophistication”, it’s village medicine orientation, or it’s occasional foray [...]

Zombie Targets Here at Echoes and Mirrors, we like zombies, drinking and guns. Now we can safely combine two of them.

Some Russian thinks America is going to implode: MOSCOW – If you’re inclined to believe Igor Panarin, and the Kremlin wouldn’t mind if you did, then President Barack Obama will order martial law this year, the United States will split into six rump-states before 2011, and Russia and China will become the backbones of a [...]

Socrates is largely revered as an historical figure –in the eyes of the social sciences, especially those pertaining to critical thinking, both his life and the lessons he taught during it are greatly admired and studied. This is a man who has been dead for roughly 2400 years and never published any of his analysis [...]

As someone who has had a very creepy encounter with a a ghost-like event, I find this pretty interesting. I won’t say it was a ghost, but dammit, something was not quite right. Didn’t see anything, but several people heard it over the course of three years. This particular ghost occupied the restaurant I worked [...]

Of Cannibals by Michel de Montaigne. When King Pyrrhus invaded Italy, having viewed and considered the order of the army the Romans sent out to meet him: “I know not,” said he, “what kind of barbarians,” (for so the Greeks called all other nations) “these may be; but the disposition of this army, that I [...]