Jonathan Happs: A Self Portrait

It's a long time since I went to this amount of trouble over a post, but then it is a long time since I came across a specimen like the ...

The Eocene Diet

Warning -- Satire -- April Fool's Post 65 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Yucatan peninsula, creating a giant dus...

A Woman's Lot Is Not a Happy Lot: Afghanistan

It's a big article posted in its entirety, but I make no excuses for that, it being essential reading on the plight of Afghani women. A ...

Lost Cities of the Ancients: The Dark Lords of Hattusha

For someone who professes an interest in history, what I'm about to admit, I can only do with no small amount of embarrassment. That the...

The Federal Bureau of Entrapment Are At It Again

I shouldn't laugh, because if you have been here before, you will know how seriously I take these cases of FBI entrapment, but... But we...