The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

Star Wars is a story. A guy goes somewhere and does some stuff. But lots of the stuff that he does stops making sense when you start to t...

"It seems very pretty", said Alice when she had finished it, "but it's rather hard to understand!...Somehow it seems ...

We know that we don't know, So let our vision still be pure; We are Agnostic Fundamentalists; We’re fundamentally unsure! Peace, ...

Timothy McVeigh, who we can all agree was not a very nice or a very well man, supposedly compared his bombing of the Murrah building in Oa...

We all agree that murder is a bad thing. Some of us believe that adultery and fornication are bad things. But, once you've permitted th...

You will remember that, in his wartime radio broadcasts, C.S. Lewis argued that Right and Wrong were a clue to the meaning of the universe...

PART ONE I don't mean to say "I told you so", but, I told you so. I TOLD YOU SO.   I SO TOLD YOU SO. ...

For no particular reason, I thought it might be nice to see what I was ranting about almost exactly seven years ago to day.  -o0o-  

This sort of thing isn't unique to the Nasty Mail, either.  Theories about what caused last month's outbreak of extreme naughti...