What to do with historical bastardry in our heroes? This is republished from my substack. Henceforth such posts – the equivalent of a magazine article…
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Goodbye freedom
Ten years ago tomorrow tonight I was watching an episode of West Wing, and, as I do, channel surfing during the ads. One channel showed…
9 CommentsDid Synthese bow to Intelligent Design pressure?
A while back I published a paper in a special edition of Synthese on “Evolution and its rivals”. My paper was titled “Are Creationists Rational?”…
39 CommentsStatism and Wikileaks
So, I have not said much about Wikileaks because it is as discussed a topic as can be, but I’m feeling curmudgeonly, so here goes.…
17 CommentsDo not pity progessives
From an article at Truthdig entitled “Do not pity the Democrats” by Chris Hedges, this opening paragraph: There are no longer any major institutions in…
16 CommentsEFA Summarises Australian Party policies on censorship
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5 CommentsAustralian internet filter dead in water
Forners may not be aware of an extremely boring federal election in Australia right now. Indeed, few Australians seem aware of this. This is as…
11 CommentsThe first casualty
The increasing intention of western and non-western governments to censor the internet is usually put in terms of “child protection”, although it is very unlikely…
10 CommentsOn recent developments, and a prospective
So, we have a woman PM. I’m not particularly impressed by that – we should have had equal representation in the Parliament thirty years ago…
16 CommentsAustralian business
So Kevin Rudd has been ousted as PM and Julia Gillard replaces him to become Australia’s first female prime minister. What this means only time…
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