Asseverations and Ejaculations
When something really gets up my nose.
Every time religious leaders give Easter and Christmas sermons, they are reported as saying something like “only with Christ can one truly love” or “non-Christians…
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,…
I was thinking about the way in which the anti-abortionists justify their views. I have always said that “Pro-Life” is a misnomer. Instead of being…
There is a religion which oppresses women, which is enthusiastically adopted by marginalised groups, which hates democracy and which has declared the modern world to…
A while back, Richard Dawkins said some very silly things on PZ Myer’s blog Pharyngula [see this discussion at the time for details]. He wrote,…
Something that bugs the hell out of me, literally, is the misuse of English. Of course, I was trained as a subeditor in the days…
In seeking tales and informations [Henry VIII, Act V, scene 3] For some time now* I have had problems with the notion of information. Not,…
I attended the March in March protest against the current government of Australia yesterday. My legs still hurt. I’m sure that demonstrations were not so…
The Australian government is looking at extending the pension age to 70, so that older Australians, especially those in the Baby Boom demographic, will be…
Larry Moran quotes Jason Rosenhouse disputing Phil Plait: So, after all, that, let us return to Plait’s argument. He tells us that the problem is too…
