This latest little bit of asshattery to sputter web-ways from Conservapedia has been around for a few days now, so you’ve likely already heard about it: Apparently, us atheists are all Fatty McTubbins, who lost our faith in god when he wouldn’t let us have the last cookie. And so now we’re brain damaged or [...]
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I’m pretty sure that if I were to take stock of the conservative commentators I’ve lambasted or ridiculed since I began blogging, Mike Adams would be the individual to have attracted (individually) most of my ire. Still, it’s hard to feel sorry for him when he comes out with non sequiturs like the following… Georgia [...]
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Yesterday, a large group of people gathered at the State Library in Melbourne to support Julian Assange and the Wikileaks organization. The rally was one of many international events organized under the banner of Rally4Wikileaks. I’ve no strong opinion on Julian Assange personally. I have no desire to pre-judge his guilt or innocence with regards [...]
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While SWOTVAC (a.k.a. ‘almost exams’) is on, I have very little blogging time. As such, I’ve set up a few reposts of older pieces that recent readers may not have seen before. Enjoy! —– I’ll never really understand the rampant paranoia that seems to accompany the gun-loving subculture of the USA that clings to the [...]
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Every day, more touching stories roll in to Dan Savage’s It Gets Better YouTube channel; LGBT adults reaching out to LGBT youths to let them know that despite the troubles they may face in school, life is worth living. Just a few days ago, the following speech was given to Fort Worth City Council (that’s in [...]
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Sex, violence and politics – what do sexual slavery and violence against women have to do with politics as we know it? What are the links between the exploitation of the environment and women? How can a feminist analysis of violence and power shape conventional campaigns? In this upcoming UMSS Q&A on Campus, Kathleen Maltzahn [...]
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I’ve not really talked about Tasers on the blog before, but it’s a conversation that we should be having in the community at large. No one disputes that, as an alternative to firearms, the ability to incapacitate a criminal with electric shocks is a tool that could be put to good use. More and more, [...]
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Really, an excellent speech. Hopefully this is indicative of things to come; and hopefully the rest of parliament has the balls to do the right thing, rather than keep playing the ‘who can piss furthest and on the most asylum seekers’ game. Australian Greens Member for Melbourne Adam Bandt gave his first speech on the [...]
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…but then, I would say that. Because I’m a dirty-hippie-lefto-Marxist-revolutionary-tax’n’spend-Commie (or, in other words, ‘anywhere left of centre’). Anyway, enough of my posturing. The smack down begins here, with Michael O’Hare tearing apart a law professor who complains that his nearly half a million per year income makes him just another Average Joe scraping by [...]
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Well, holy shit. Let’s take a trip in the YouTube time machine, and see if anybody remembers this lady: That’s right folks, we’re talking about the crazy lady Barney Frank smacked down so hard her grandchildren will be born homophobic. Now, any self-respecting person would slink back into their Nazi-proof bomb shelter after a caning [...]
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