It was also very scenic, and we all love to enjoy our scenery from a train window. If it had been a line passing nowhere of note, I doubt there would have been so much of a 'hoo-hah' over its demise.

There is, indeed, one piece of evidence for the probability of the comparative youth of our system, altogether apart from human traditions and the geognostic appearances of the surface of our planet.

From a quite opposite perspective, an interesting departure of the 1990s (largely on the internet, and still flourishing) is the cult of the Invisible Pink Unicorn, which is at least in part a philosophical tool for examining the nature of religious faith from a skeptical point of view.

What is your availability this week?