Memoirs of a Troglodyte

Why did the chicken cross the road?: CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: I envisi...

In the previous post, you may have noticed that my writing style was simplistic and choppy, without transitions. This was, of course, not an...

Wang Lung completes the buying of the great house in town and moves in after his eldest son has a baby. There are now three generations in t...

Wang Lung suddenly notices that O-lan is ill and in pain. He calls a doctor, who tells him that O-lan is dying. O-lan "lay dying on her...

Wang Lung brings his concubine, Lotus, to his house, and his father, who is now very old, is angered and alarmed. "There is a harlot he...

The reason that Wang Lung manages to get land for such a low price was that the great house has been experiencing considerable hardships. Th...

In the great city, Wang Lung's wife, children, and father were forced to beg for money to live, while he himself pulled heavy "jinr...

In the fifth and sixth chapters, Wang Lung makes a small profit from his small farm, so he decides to buy a little piece of land from the es...

The book "The Good Earth," by Pearl S. Buck starts off with Wang Lung, a Chinese farmer before the revolution, about to get marrie...

This book has continued to annoy me. The dance at the end of chapter 6 is a blatant attempt at symbolism. The whole rebellion can easily be ...

The first seven chapters of this book have been mildly interesting at best. At worst, they have been boring or melodramatic, not to mention ...

Money, as it is used today, is a very bad concept. The government uses money to control the citizens. The citizens have a debt to the govern...

THIS PLAY IS FAR TOO PREDICTABLE! Benedick and Beatrice confess their love, and Benedick challenges Claudio to a duel. I doubt that Benedick...

In scene 3, Shakespeare used the word 'note' a lot again. For example Balthasar says, "Note this before my notes: There's n...

P: God G: Reality Assume there is no God. If there is no God, there can be no proof. If there is no proof, there can be no reali...

Utopia is the one thing human governments have been striving for since before Thomas More. Utopia is, in essence, the ideal state. That is w...

Shakespeare used words to his advantage. For example, in his play, "Much Ado About Nothing," he uses the word 'note' quite...

QUALIFYING EXAMINATION Instructions: Read each question carefully. Answer all questions. Time limit: 4 hours. Begin immediately. HISTORY:...

Wikipedia rocks because it is easy to edit. This is not a bad thing, as some people would claim. This is a good thing because it is very up ...

Q: Why did the chicken cross the playground? A: To get to the other slide. Q: Why did the turkey cross the road? A: To prove he wasn't c...

Q: Why can't a bicycle stand on its own? A: Because it's two tired.

Click on the title of the article to see a funny argument. A posteriori stinks because you can't make (a posteriori) claims without maki...

There is no reality because: 1. There is no Proof. a. Any claim that you could use in a proof is based on assumptions. b. You cannot prove ...

There's this guy walking down the street with two penguins on his shoulder. A policeman comes up to him and tells him, "Hey, you ca...

Anti Jokes Q: What is the difference between a duck? A: One of its legs are both the same. Q: What's the difference between an apple? A:...

A priori and a posteriori are terms used in epistemology to describe how parts of knowledge are derived. A priori refers to that which is re...

Hey, cool. Scientists apparently have teleported something. They teleported a "a macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of bill...

There are 10 types of people in this world: Those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who only think they do.

"Elvis is dead," said Tom expressly. "I'll never sleep on the railroad tracks again!" Tom said, beside himself. ...

There is an interesting idea being floated around called Victory Disease. In essence, Victory Disease means that what goes up must come down...

Some Tom Swifties: "Let's look for another Grail!" Tom requested. "I unclogged the drain with a vacuum cleaner," Tom...

Q: what do you get when you cross a parrot and a shark? A: something that talks your head off.

Q: What do you call the skeleton in the closet? A: Last year's hide-and-seek champion

Oogamagook lived in ancient Hastings, and occasionally had dealings with the Picts. Most of it was just trade, but when the Picts thought th...

What do you get when you throw a grenade in a french kitchen? Linoleum Blownaparte

So, there's this string, and he walks into a bar. The barman, however, tells him, "Hey, we don't serve your kind here," an...

New Feature: Occasional jokes. Today's is: Life is like a sewer. what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. -Tom Leher

The summer before fifth grade, I decided to audition for A Christmas Carol at the Guthrie Theater. I went to the audition, and did rather we...

Hello. I am Kered the Manraf. If you couldn't tell from the previous posts (and you probably couldn't) I am a self-described intelle...

Oogamagook is a barbarian. Thus, he has poor tastes in music. (See the logic there?) And he hates librarians. He can't understand why ...

Oogamagook, the Neanderthal had, hanging on his wall, a great big square thing made of solid stone, and in the middle of it was a hole. One ...

Sometimes, when exploring complex concepts, it helps to make them simple enough for a neanderthal such as Oogamagook to understand. One can ...