Time for a bit of a bleating whinge-thing. In the mail today arrived an envelope addressed to my wife. We know not how the sender got the necessary name and address, but they did. Inside we found an offer: a bunch of greeting cards – ostensibly painted by people using their feet...
Here’s an odd thing: a guest blog on Scientific American, calling on us to consider the possibility of a Creator of our universe. Mmmmmmkay…. First of all, Stephanie Zvan, likewise writing a guest blog on Scientific American, has neatly deconstructed the failure that is Naff’s rather, well, naff, post. Go read that. I’ll wait …. Back? Cool....
This is abominable. For sitting where one is “not supposed to”, the appropriate response appears to be “spraying the living crap out of your eyes with pepper spray”. How on earth did we get to this point? How did we let money gain so much power that the greed of the rich became more worthy...
I’m furious. My 5 year old daughter is beginning to learn there are “girls’ toys” and “boys’ toys”. My children were looking through a toy catalogue, and Miss 5 informed her brother that what they were looking at was the “girls’ aisle”, and the next page had the “girls’ aisle”. I almost wept. How...
As someone who accepts the reality that there is almost certainly not a god, and likewise accepts as basically fact, the exceeding well-supported scientific Theory of evolution by natural selection, largely as described by Darwin, I find it pretty unpleasant to be likened to fascist mass-murderers, as people like Josef Ratzinger are wont to...
Active Resistance, Non-compliance, and Civil Disobedience
Yes, more on the “let’s use pepper spray on these kids sitting on the ground where we don’t want them to” story from UC Davis. First thing that struck me just yesterday: these were apparently UC Davis police. Whut? O_รต Since when do universities have their own police? And since when did they get paramilitary riot...
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