An example of such comparison must have happened in the mind of the first alt.revisionist to think of taking his show on the road and bringing revisionist postings to sci.skeptic. Surely one thought in his brain (well...misfiring neuron in his neural cortex might be more accurate) was I am 'skeptical' about the history of the Holocaust, maybe I'll find allies who can battle the people who believe in history in sci.skeptic! The contrast came when he started posting and found out the hard way that even without The Usual Suspects from a.r. stepping in he was being torn seven ways from Sunday by the sci.skeptic Regulars.

Nepalese mo-mos

Bayan Obo, Inner Mongolia, China

I took up the rear, carrying an exhausted Joanne, who was playing with the hairs in my ears. From the consternation ahead I realised something was wrong.'Stop that, Joanne. It hurts.' Over a sun-burnt scalp and framed in a squatly tudorised arch, I had a glimpse of Addises swarming round the altar of the Memorial Chamber against delicate columns and finials of spun egg yolk and icing sugar.