Detox

You may have noticed things being a bit quiet round here lately. The hassles surrounding the challenge of finding a new flat to move into, and then moving into it, have rendered my feeble constitution utterly incapable of multi-tasking. Achieving any other goals at all, with the increasingly urgent task of lugging half a tonne [...]

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Living in fear

Fortunately, Hell isn’t such a bad place. It’s actually a village in Norway, and although I’ve never been, it certainly doesn’t seem as harsh, torturous, or pyrotechnical as its reputation would suggest. Of course, I’m talking about a Hell that actually exists. The fictional kinds never seem like much fun. They’re not all quite as [...]

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Skeptatheism

So there’s this thing called Skepticon happening in Missouri right now. It’s not really made much of a blip on my radar, but it’s a big annual skeptical meet-up and conference, along similar lines to TAM, but free to attend. I’m not there. Mostly because it’s taking place more than eight miles from where I [...]

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I see gay people…

I’m running out of interest in the ongoing debate in the comments here, now. It was fun for a while, but David’s showing no signs of developing interestingly. timberwraith is still doing sterling work responding to his nuttiness, though, so feel free to cheer her on if you still want to get involved. I will [...]

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Is Gillian McKeith a real doctor?

If you haven’t seen me plugging it on Twitter already, then you may be thrilled to learn I’ve set up a new website. It’s designed to provide information on inexplicably popular TV nutritionist and current I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! contestant Gillian McKeith. So, please visit isgillianmckeitharealdoctor.com to learn all you need [...]

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Smash the system… later

I think I’ve figured out why I’m not an anarchist. It has to do with why I’m so good (or, arguably, so bad) at procrastinating. Bear with me on this. I actually have a lot of time for anarchists and crazy libertarians. I’m a big fan of personal freedoms, I’ve never been comfortable with socialism [...]

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Preventing a Project

Project Prevention have been back in the news lately. I wrote about this organisation before, here and here, and since then my initial reservations have developed into serious concern and outrage. The more their activities continue, the clearer it becomes that the welfare of people is a secondary priority to their ideology. And this ideology [...]

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Twitter Joke Trial

Crap! Judge Jacqueline Davies has made a preposterous legal ruling. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together otherwise… Well, I suppose I’d better not finish that sentence. At least, not with anything more serious than “I’ll write an angry letter to a local newspaper and consider lodging some sort of [...]

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The Mass Libel Reform Blog – Fight for Free Speech!

This might not be the only place you see the following message cropping up. It’s a coordinated thing, and it really is saying something important. It’s in everyone’s interest to establish a good libel law which actually defends people against being wronged, without being open to abuse. If you happen to be against the idea [...]

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Consider Humanism

Today marks the launch of a massive humanist advertising campaign, with a TV commercial, bus ads, billboards, pages in newspapers, and so forth. The aim is to put out messages like this: I’m not going to spend much time dredging up any deep thoughts of my own about this right now, not least because I’m [...]

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