We all know about Occam’s Razor. I recently learned that Christopher Hitchens coined his own epistemological rule that has come to be known as “Hitchens’ Razor”. Per Hitchens’ Razor, what can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. If you say that the moon is made of Gribble without any evidence of the …
I have written earlier about online scams. The previous story involved a tripartite scam. Scammer 1 posts a Craigslist ad for a skid steer. They promise to ship it to me, once I give payment to a third-party freight forwarder. The harsh light of common sense shows that the seller and the shipper are the …
Martin Amis says that it is bollocks that truth is stranger than fiction. When – he says – did you last awake from troubled dreams having turned into a human-sized cockroach? I read Gary Shteyngart’s novel Super Sad Love Story shortly after it came out, in 2010. I do not remember anything about it, except …