In Virginia Woolf’s essay “A Room of One’s Own” she argues that the primary barrier between a woman and literary success is opportunity. Given time, space, and license a woman of talent and inclination can create great work. It’s easy to further this postulate to include all people who have been deprived of any of these things, all … [continue]

A possible breakthrough in the Bin-Laden search has been made by way of following the guy whose been delivering his numerous video recordings. When top CIA executive Dickey Thump was asked why this tactic was never used before, Mr. Thump responded, “the delivery guy just seemed so nice it was hard to believe that he was actually evil.” When … [continue]

Sometimes when you combine two things you get a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. It’s from this principle that a great many of the things that make life tolerable arise. Combine chocolate and peanut butter, sororities and tequila, or tag teams and wrestling and you get something so far improved upon its component parts … [continue]