Bitter sweet humor from the master at the age of 82.
Worth the cost of my new pair of spectacles!
(NPR interview online)
Tags kurt vonnegut, humanist
Wednesday, January 31
kurt vonnegut: a man without a country
Bitter sweet humor from the master at the age of 82.
Worth the cost of my new pair of spectacles!
(NPR interview online)
Tags kurt vonnegut, humanist
Saturday, January 20
Saturday, October 21
ARE you sick of religious nutters yet?
Tony Parsons in the Mirror
Tags religious nutters
16 October 2006
KEEP THE FAITH.. TO YOURSELF
Tony Parsons
ARE you sick of religious nutters yet?
I am sick of hearing that teachers in primary schools have a right to dress like something out of the Batcave.
I am sick of the implication that I will be consumed by satanic lust if I gaze upon a female face.
And I am sick of interviews with Aishah Azmi, the Muslim teacher suspended for wearing a veil at a Church of England school in Yorkshire because, quite frankly, I can hardly understand a bloody word she says with that black sheet over her face.
And it's not just the Muslims. A Christian Bible-basher who works for British Airways is all over the news because she insists on wearing a crucifix outside her BA uniform. I am sick of her too - sick of all these people who want to rub my nose in their faith.
This is the most tolerant nation on Earth and in recent times our tolerance has been pushed to breaking-point.
Remove the veil. Remove the cross. Make your religion something private and personal that you share with the big man upstairs.
Tags religious nutters
Friday, September 22
Sunday, July 30
Religious Ranter Banned from Oxford Circus
OK, so I missed this one at the time, but the ranting religious nutter has finally been ASBO'ed from using amplification whilst anoying passers by in Oxford Circus.
Peace at last!!
Discovered via comments on MediaWatchWatch about the sign, which reads “Our dogs are fed on Jehovah’s Witnesses”
Tags ASBO
Peace at last!!
Discovered via comments on MediaWatchWatch about the sign, which reads “Our dogs are fed on Jehovah’s Witnesses”
Tags ASBO
Tuesday, May 23
Homeopathy is bunkum
Susan Blackmore joins the chorus of voices against bogus medicine
Tags homeopathy
Homeopathy is bunkum; the time and effort are not. And there's the rub. Please, please let's use NHS money to provide more time for doctors instead of treatments we know don't work.
Tags homeopathy
Saturday, May 13
Pickled Politics update
Pickled Politics has taken the view that they should lump asian bigots into the same category as the likes of the BNP.
Interesting, and very positive - "the Asian Community" is not a single entity, but is as varied as the rest of us in politics, beliefs and sexuality.
Lets hope their influence spreads.
Pickled Politics was created to fill a void that Rohin and I felt and knew existed. It was a magazine, a platform, where we could rail against a system that needed re-examining. Other (media) spaces remain constrained either by vested interests or political correctness.
Let’s start from the beginning. We, as modern Britons, are fighting a metaphorical war on two fronts.
In one corner we have what you can call “the Asian community”. On a macro level it has become a closed system dominated by community leaders, so-called representatives, “race relations experts” and self-serving politicians. They are surrounded by a community of diverse people who remain largely unwilling to examine themselves critically because they are too busy being defensive.
On the other side there are the racists. But while racism has become a dirty word, even for the BNP, it has evolved into anti-immigration hysteria and Islamophobia. Like Hizb ut-Tahrir, the bigots have simply changed their words.
There is another way to look at this.
On one side stand all the bigots who hate, despise and look down on others based on their race, religion, caste, sexuality and nationality. And there are others who choose to reject that hatred. Whose side do you want to be on?
Tags pickledpolitics
Interesting, and very positive - "the Asian Community" is not a single entity, but is as varied as the rest of us in politics, beliefs and sexuality.
Lets hope their influence spreads.
Pickled Politics was created to fill a void that Rohin and I felt and knew existed. It was a magazine, a platform, where we could rail against a system that needed re-examining. Other (media) spaces remain constrained either by vested interests or political correctness.
Let’s start from the beginning. We, as modern Britons, are fighting a metaphorical war on two fronts.
In one corner we have what you can call “the Asian community”. On a macro level it has become a closed system dominated by community leaders, so-called representatives, “race relations experts” and self-serving politicians. They are surrounded by a community of diverse people who remain largely unwilling to examine themselves critically because they are too busy being defensive.
On the other side there are the racists. But while racism has become a dirty word, even for the BNP, it has evolved into anti-immigration hysteria and Islamophobia. Like Hizb ut-Tahrir, the bigots have simply changed their words.
There is another way to look at this.
On one side stand all the bigots who hate, despise and look down on others based on their race, religion, caste, sexuality and nationality. And there are others who choose to reject that hatred. Whose side do you want to be on?
Tags pickledpolitics
Sunday, April 23
The Evolutionary Power of Religion?
Daniel Dennett's book, Breaking the Spell examines religion, based on the knowledge that it has come about as a human phenomenon as a result of evolution.
What about the evolutionary pressure exerted on man by religion?
After all if you live in a society where atheists are killed, then your survival chances are enhanced if you carry genetic traits which give you a strong tendancy to either believe what you are told to believe, or at least say you do.
Tags evolution, religion, danieldennett, atheism
What about the evolutionary pressure exerted on man by religion?
After all if you live in a society where atheists are killed, then your survival chances are enhanced if you carry genetic traits which give you a strong tendancy to either believe what you are told to believe, or at least say you do.
Tags evolution, religion, danieldennett, atheism
Wednesday, April 12
Why Creationism is wrong and Evolution is right
Tuesday nights lecture by Prof Steve Jones is now available on line.
It was so popular the live stream was overloaded and there were apparently around 400 people turned away on the night.
(Unfortunately the realplayer sound is out of phase and the WM version doesn't seem to work)
Tags evolution
It was so popular the live stream was overloaded and there were apparently around 400 people turned away on the night.
(Unfortunately the realplayer sound is out of phase and the WM version doesn't seem to work)
Tags evolution
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