Skeptophilia

When I taught Critical Thinking in high school, one of the principles I harped on was "check your sources." The difficulty is, I d...

In the very peculiar Doctor Who  episode "Joy to the World," the character of Joy Almondo is being controlled by a device inside a...

In my short story "Retrograde," the main character, Eli, meets a woman who makes the bizarre claim that she experiences time runni...

In his 1967 short story "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne," writer R. A. Lafferty took one of the first looks at something that since...

Folks who have read a lot of my stories will recognize Flanagan's Irish Pub as a setting for a number of different scenes, and the frien...

My current work-in-progress (well, work-in-extremely-slow-progress) is a fall-of-civilization novel called In the Midst of Lions  that I swe...

If you needed more evidence of how little it takes to get the woo-woos leaping about making excited squeaking noises, look no further than t...

A lot of us here in the United States would love to have a crystal ball and find out what's going to happen in the next few months.  Aft...

In the latest from the "News Stories That Make Me Want To Take Ockham's Razor And Slit My Wrists With It" department, we have ...