Okay, rant time. Any of my readers who disapprove of me when I go straight into ranting mode, please stop reading now. I’m still in somewha...

Judas Priest’s ‘Bloodstone’ , from their classic 1982 album Screaming for Vengeance ! Has to be one of the catchiest riffs in the history o...

‘Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Even a superficial look at history reveals that no social advance rolls in on the wheel...

Okay, this post was bound to happen sooner or later. One of my best friends at Pitt describes me (in good humour) as an intriguing bundle o...

‘Broken Heroes’ by the legendary British metal band Saxon. This one’s for the brave broken heroes of Iraq and Afghanistan, with a prayer f...

The assassination attempt in Arizona in which 5 were killed and 7 were wounded, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (who is in critic...

I remarked in an earlier post that Mass Effect was very much like Knights of the Old Republic in terms of plot and storyline – and that o...