Categories: Current Affairs, Legal Nonsense, Mainstream Media Narcolepsy, War on Christmas, Why my God is better than your God (or your non-God)
Lying in furtherance of religion is no virtue....
by Graham 
...so why is it that a Christian group paying for pro-religion billboards feels it necessary to just make shit up?
The blog Computing Intelligence has a suitable riposte:
"There is nothing so simultaneously dull and mentally detrimental as spending you… more »
Categories: Current Affairs, Why my God is better than your God (or your non-God)
07/22/09 09:57:19 pm,
07/22/09 09:57:19 pm, Ah. the wonders of chain emails...
by Graham
I was examining our Yahoo inbox the other day when I found another chain email sent by a friend. Regular readers of this blog will know that I have limited patience for chain emails, since they are usually reflexively forwarded by people who (in some cas… more »
Thought provocation on the recession from the Financial Times
by Graham
In the Financial Times I found this article by Ben Funnell. He begins by laying out his stark hypothesis:
Just why is there so much debt in the Anglo-Saxon world? Bankers and regulators know well that it is in nobody’s long-term interests to have allowe… more »
This is truly hair-raising...
by Graham
In 2004, off-duty police officers in Milwaukee engaged in what can only be described as totally psychopathic behaviour when they beat up a bi-racial man at a house-warming party.
The most amazing thing about the whole affair was not that the police for… more »
The "always right" U.S. justice system
by Graham
As outlined in this article, which shows how excessive reliance was placed on evidence supposedly uncovered by a police dog, and how the various actors in the story on the prosecution side are all closing ranks and engaging in BS, evasion and other dysfu… more »
If George Orwell had written "1984" any time after 2000
by Graham
...in addition to changing the title, I am sure that he would have mentioned Photoshop as a tool used by regimes to manipulate visual images... more »
A story that makes the mind boggle
by Graham
I was going to quote from this article, but it stands on its own and is so amazing that you need to read it (it's a short article). My initial reaction and my considered reaction are one and the same = that this is one of the most egregious examples of a… more »
Murder of Dr. George Tiller
by Graham
When a society allows deeply dysfunctional individuals to conflate abortion with murder, without sufficient pushback from educated electors and opinion-formers who ought to be awake and alert, instead of mentally narcoleptic, this is the eventual result.… more »
How to get rid of doorstepping religious folks
by Graham
When I was at high school in the UK, our house used to get visited regularly by religious sects. Most commonly it was the Jehova's Witnesses, who were very active locally. The Jehova's Witnesses clearly thought it was OK to drag their children along on t… more »
Empathy and law
by Graham
The authoritarian dimwits who seem to constitute an unhealthy proportion of the conservative base in the USA have gotten themselves all worked up into a frenzy (as usual, aided and abetted by the mainstream media) over a remark by President Obama that on… more »