An open letter to creationists 4 Oct 2008 … by GumbyTheCat, with just the right amount of snark. Late note: See the critical commentary by Galley Proofs. Sermon
Politics Almost, but not quite, right about gay marriage 29 Apr 200818 Sep 2017 The Australian government, still in the period of meeting its election promises, has legitimised the relations between homosexual couples so that they now have the same rights as defacto couples, which is long overdue. But they didn’t quite get it right. Why not? They didn’t allow gays to get married…. Read More
Freedom Phobosophy 14 Aug 201714 Aug 2017 As everyone knows, philosophy comes from the two Greek words philo and sophos, and means, roughly, the love of wisdom, although as everyone also knows, Socrates declared his wisdom was his knowledge that he knew nothing. In recent years (by which I mean increasingly since the 1970s), there has been… Read More
Sermon On bullying at school, and reunions 17 Jul 2009 Mark Chu-Carroll has a heartfelt rant against how he was treated as a “geek” at school, which resonates with me. I was a geek, but I managed to avoid being attacked daily (mostly) by becoming a “head” or “hippy” (it was the 1970s, okay?). As such I fit into a… Read More
Wow! My previous record for traffic was 141 visits… this morning, before 9 A.M., I have 202 so far… cool! Thanks for the referral! I had no idea a ScienceBlogs blogger even knew my little blog existed.