Jimbo Rants

A great paragraph from Gulliver’s Travel : ​ His majesty, in another audience, was at the pains to recapitulate the sum of all I had spoken;...

​The following excerpt is from the introduction of Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids by Bryan Caplan . I bought Caplan's book after list...

The Temptation of The One Before The One was known, the future leader was indistinguishable from an average ascetic . The ascetic was around...

Language and Translations The Iliad and The Odyssey are epic poems attributed to Homer . They are written in a archaic poetic Greek - a G...

Background My daughter is being taught Christianity by her friends. I could make a good rant of that... In general, I think it is wrong to ...

I'm reading  The Lotus Sutra: A Contemporary Translation of a Buddhist Classic translated by Gene Reeves . I wrote a little bit about ho...

​It has been a while since I had a rant. I’ve almost ranted about face tattoos a couple times, but I’ll save that for a more dry day.  More ...