Crime and Punishment (Part 1)

There’s very little about any modern system of criminal justice which isn’t controversial. Even cautiously suggesting something like “Crime is bad and it would be good if there were less of it” raises questions about what should constitute a crime, and how good a job the current state of our laws is doing at representing [...]

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Linksplat – 31/01/12

– This five-year-old is being outrageously sexualised by bloggers and journalists. That’s according to her mother, who dressed the kid up like Julia Roberts from Pretty Woman for a show called Toddlers & Tiaras, and got her to sing a song called Sexy And I Know It at a nightclub. – Here’s a graphic which [...]

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Nazis, elsewhere

The action’s over on my Other blog tonight, where I’m asking important questions like: Were the Nazis really so bad? By the time Jews were having their property confiscated as a matter of official policy, they had been successfully othered in the minds of enough Europeans that the Nazis could proceed with their “Final Solution” [...]

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Linksplat – 30/01/12

– Newt Gingrich knows what’s wrong with US drug policy: not enough people are being killed for carrying handfuls of marijuana. – Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance. – Nice analysis of a picture which has apparently been doing the rounds lately, being used to suggest [...]

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Gay-Straight Alliance

So it was National Gay-Straight Alliance Day recently, and as has started to feel like an increasingly regular occurrence lately, I had to go and find some way to oppose this perfectly sensible effort to foster acceptance and compassion. I haven’t followed the campaign and its associated activities much, so I don’t really know how [...]

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Linksplat – 28/01/12

– Obama’s got some good plans for the country, and I’m sure it’ll work out well. This time. – Rod Liddle wants to become disabled. A less kind observer might offer to help him out with that. – If you’re only as vaguely aware of the caste system in place in India as I generally [...]

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Islamic persuasion tactics

A couple of weeks ago, a particularly intellectual and astute Muslim totally destroyed some heretics’ arguments with his superior powers of logic and deduction. Before they’d even spoken, he conclusively demonstrated that the facts were entirely on his side, and that any rebuttals made by the non-believers would necessarily be false. By which I mean [...]

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Praise Jesus or die from DRUG AIDS

I only discovered Dusty recently, and I’m ready to join his cult. Here he is talking us through the fantastic Christian propaganda of a Chick tract:  

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Burning bridges

I do not support or endorse Barack Obama. There. That wasn’t so bad. This isn’t a topical piece. I’m not reacting to some shocking announcement made in the recent State of the Union address, like that the economy needs to be better or that education is good. He hasn’t done anything new to alienate or [...]

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Linksplat – 26/01/12

– Prejudice against individuals based on their religion is wrong. Pointing out the violence and abuse inherent to Islam is not prejudice. – Citation badly needed. – People who want abortion to be illegal aren’t even opposed to abortion, if you actually look at the practical effects of their policies. They’re neither pro-life nor anti-abortion. [...]

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