Skeptophilia

Ernest Hemingway famously said, "There isn’t any symbolism in The Old Man and the Sea .  The sea is the sea.  The old man is an old man...

I remember my younger son, ever the practical, literal type, struggling over his homework in eleventh grade English Lit. "You know what...

About a year ago, I got into a fairly surreal conversation with a friend of mine over the phenomenon of "Bronies." A "Brony,...

When I was in freshman lit -- a lot of years ago -- we were assigned to read and analyze Robert Frost's classic poem, "Stopping by ...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Nabisco creating a hermetically-sealed, bomb-proof vault on the island of Svalbard, with the sole purpo...

Apparently, it's easier than I thought to give your soul to Satan. You don't have to attend a Black Mass, or hold a séance, or eve...

With all of the controversy right now over the upcoming presidential election, the conflicts over gun rights and federal land ownership, and...

Today I learned a new term that is apparently gaining popularity amongst the conspiracy-theory crowd, and that term is "fnord." ...

Well, Superbowl XLVII is history, and the Baltimore Ravens have taken it despite a second-half rally by the 49ers that had Baltimore fans ch...

"What does it all mean?" It's a question you hear posed an awful lot.  The search for meaning is behind most of the world...