As I leave the train station in the morning on my way to work I not infrequently find one or two people desperately thrusting towards me a pamphlet with the bold title: AWAKE! Generally I just duck quickly past without making eye contact, but this morning the pamphlet was thrust so effectively in front of my face that my...
This morning my train entered a reception hole, I had no data connection, so no twitter with which to twit. Consequently I figured I might as well subject you to my meandering waffle. With some more added this afternoon, herewith a Friday blither I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea...
There’s battle-lines being drawn … It seems lately there’s a lot of tension and even overt conflict and animosity between religious groups (extreme/fundamentalist ones, at any rate) and some very (increasingly?) vocal atheists – Richard Dawkins springs immediately to mind, as does a moronic article on ABC News today, with an Anglican Priest blaming sectarian...
Happy New Year/decade (ok, Dr Plait, I will give in … I’ll even give in to Erik Larsen’s demands we say “twenty-ten” if I get a flying car out of it). As well as New Year’s Day, today is Friday. It’s also a day off work. So I figured I might as...
