Linksplat – 31/12/11

– No damn President of mine is going to celebrate Kwanzaa. At least, no African President. – This black kid shouldn’t have run from those cops. It’s “illogical”. I mean, it’s not like they were going to hurt him. – “Mohammed had a thing for little girls.” Any law which locks people up for saying [...]

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The GayGayGay (Pink Supremacy!)

“You don’t want the Gay Liberation Movement to morph into something like the Ku Klux Klan,” the Archbishop of Chicago (they seriously have those?) recently said. And he’s right. I certainly don’t want that. That would be terrible, if that happened. In fact, here’s a list of some things which would be terrible, should they [...]

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Linksplat – 29/12/11

– Has it really taken this long for the Westboro Baptist Church to get around to hating football? This can’t be the first time on this particular crazy train for such dedicated contrarians. – Justin Bieber, ice giants, and big floofy dogs, together at last. – Cory Doctorow’s blogging and tweeting about it is kinda [...]

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Youthreach

I hadn’t heard of Youthreach, but until recently they apparently offered a counselling service to young people in Greenwich. Theirs was one of the services whose funding was recently cut as a result of budgetary cutbacks to public services, in response to the UK’s financial crisis. Jon Ronson spoke to some people who worked there, [...]

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Linksplat – 28/12/11

– The abhorrence of Mike Adams’s approach to just about everything notwithstanding, NaturalNews is on the side of right once again. – Radley Balko has a new rule. And he’s right. Because of the authority the police have to curtail other people’s freedom, they should be watched very carefully, and recording their actions is in [...]

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New Project: There Are No Others

I’ve launched a new blog today, titled There Are No Others. It’s intended to document cases of in-group bias in public discourse, and suggest more humanistic ways of addressing the problems and disputes we face. It’s based on an idea that’s been recurrently tickling my interest for long enough that I’m going to explore it [...]

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Linksplat – 27/12/11

Oh yeah, and I hope you all had a fun Christmasorwhatever over the last few days. – “Let us allow ourselves to be made simple.” That’s a lot of what’s wrong with religion in one sentence, right there. – A Christian pastor’s advice to a rape victim, based on the advice given in his holy [...]

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David Icke is fun

He really is. He’s the guy whose main schtick is the Illuminati reptilian alien trans-dimensional Freemason conspiracy, of which just about everybody rich or famous is suspected to be a part. Yeah. That guy. He’s been on this train for years, and sufficiently large crowds of people are… entertained? intrigued? also crazy? …that he regularly [...]

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Linksplat – 24/12/11

– I’m going to be way better at being married than this Christian couple who’ve written a whole book about it. – Anyone remember Christmas With A Capital C, that godawful-looking movie which was being trailed about this time last year, and seemed to be just another outlet for fantasist Christian whining about anti-Christmas oppression? [...]

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Linksplat – 23/12/11

– What’s worse than playing cruel jokes on your young children and filming the resulting distress for public entertainment? Getting them girls’ toys when they’re a boy. Or vice versa. – These drug courts sound like an excellent idea. And hey, Matthew Perry likes them. So they must be good. – “Sorry for ruining marriage, [...]

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