Feeling Guilty, Are We?

Sunday. Lazy afternoon. And ethanol. Perfect conditions for armchair philosophy. Free from the daily grind, our mind wanders into the realm of inquiry. Today was one such day for a good friend of mine. Prodded by a poignant short story about a little girl working as a housemaid and unable to attend school, he was forced …

The B-Ark Jobs

Inside the treasure trove of humor that is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wonderful parody of Plato's ship of fools allegory. Douglas Adams, in the second book of the series, creates a sketch in which the two main characters, Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent, are accidentally teleported to a spaceship of an alien planet Golgafrincham, only to find it …