The death of Jani Lane has prompted quite a bit of thinking and talking between mrs tsuken and me, fuelled in part by an excellent, articulate and insightful post by Sebastian Bach. Fame, it seems, is a harsh mistress. There is a striking – and superficially surprising – dichotomy evident in the world of...
Fred Nile, the National President of the Christian Democrat party, is a loathsome little weasel indeed (that’s not what I’d like to have written; it’s what I have written). He is so blindly obsessed with preventing the teaching to children of philosophical discourse about ethics that he has abandoned any pretence of behaving like...
I had a nice surprise today, spying a few lorikeets having a nibble in some trees as I was walking between the emergency department and outpatients. While I didn’t have my Lumix, I have taken to carrying my wife’s Fuji FinePix compact in my jacket pocket, so I took a few photos. My favourite...
This tragedy in Norway has left me echoing Peter Rabbit: how do they do it? What can it be? There’s idiocy in everyone but twice as much in them (rhyming never was my strongest suit). Crazydelusionalinsanelooneymadman!!!!11!11!eleven! It was bad enough when people (even PZ Myers, who ought to know better, being a level 20 sceptic with...
There are some real twits on YouTube (take me for instance…) … or the latest commenter on my All Along the Watchtower video: someone called Multishades complains about my hair movement, & the guitar – which s/he says is totally wrong … but says I sound great … but that I should “move on”. I...
If this doesn’t make you rage-cry, we can no longer be friends
A friend on Facebook posted one of the most awful things I’ve read in ages: a report of a mother bear killing herself, then her cub – to avoid the torture and agony of bile-farming. I knew about bile-farming. I did not know that the bears try to suicide by hitting themselves in the abdomen...
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