Month: February 2017

Let’s have a shameless self-promotion session

By Anna on 2017-02-21 • ( 6 )

For a short time, Palgrave Macmillan is offering a discount on e-books, which includes mine. So if you’ve ever been curious, but put off by the giddying price, now is the time to grab it. Here’s where you can buy… Read More ›

This Week in Even More Unnerving: Darth Bannon’s dodgy history obsession

By tigtog on 2017-02-08 • ( 3 )

Bannon is portrayed as believing that a “global existential war” with radical jihadis (and maybe China as well) is inevitable, and that authoritarian politics in the USA is the only way to prepare the nation for victory.

A close-up portrait of two middle-aged pale-skinned women, their faces close and touching

So I only just discovered the Tomlin Rule

By tigtog on 2017-02-06

The quote is about trying to stay informed by reading the newspapers, and seems to embody my own attempts at self-preservation in a world where duplicitous absurdities constantly gain more traction than rigorously scrutinised realities.