Oppose internet censorship 29 Mar 2010 The CIA tried (and presumably is still trying) to stop WikiLeaks. This is another reason why internet censorship has to be opposed. Censorship Politics
Politics On nonscience smear campaigns 23 Jan 2010 In Scientific American: … the only strong evidence we have that Oklahoma Senator James M. Inhofe isn’t a clown is that his car isn’t small enough. Read More
Education The commodification of learning 16 Dec 2008 The Bradley Report [Here] is proposing, among other things, that [Australian] students have vouchers to attend the university they want to, rather than making the university the funding recipient directly. Two things stand out to me. One is that this makes higher learning a marketable commodity, in which the desires… Read More
Censorship On censorship 10 Nov 200818 Sep 2017 The internet filtering debacle raises some more general issues I have with my nation’s governments’ tendency to censor ideas it doesn’t like. Sure, there’s the “Won’t somebody think of the children” justification, which is a Good Intention (suitable for paving roads), but surely the best bet is to go for… Read More
I will always love WikiLeaks for bringing us Kent Hovind’s dissertation. Fuck you, CIA, for messing with such a wonderful thing!