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...
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...
I’ve just seen a cartoon video produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, purporting to address privacy concerns – which is pretty important, as it’s likely there are a fair number of people with concerns over what information is asked for, and what will be done with that information, or how securely it...
Gender Stereotyping – Start ‘em Young
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...
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