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Rome’s Bigfoot and the Sad Story of the City’s Dark Ages
Nobody knows where the rest of the statue is, or what it looked like.
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The New Dark Ages?
Back in 2013 I wrote a post entitled, “When Did ‘Intellectual’ Become a Dirty Word?” Little did I know at the time that that was just the tip of a very ignorant iceberg. I am beginning to look at 2013 as the halcyon days. Imagine that. Ironically, I started that post by saying, “I really…
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Anti-Progress
It’s always a weird feeling when my long-held views about how the world works are set ever-so-slightly askew. It makes me wonder what else I’ve taken for granted that, well, shouldn’t be taken on faith. That strange sensation happened yet again today when I was watching a documentary about the dark ages. This was a…