Denialism (n): the practice of creating the illusion of debate when there is none.
ethics & philosophy
ideals, breaches, disappointments and inspirations
Today in ongoing double standards: pretexts for invasion
Especially when the lawyers from the British foreign Office testified that they had advised the war was illegal. Well, this makes it a war-crime, doesn’t it? So why aren’t Howard, Blair and Bush on trial in the Hague? Any other world leaders who have done the same thing have had had Western politicians baying for his blood, eg Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait. Or is it one rule for them, and another for us?
And still they defend him
The doctor who first claimed that the MMR vaccine could cause autism has been found guilty of a series of misconduct charges, that include putting children through painful and unnecessary tests, a disciplinary hearing has ruled today.
Experiments in radically downsized living
I find these kinds of stories fascinating. People choosing to ‘live poor’ (though of course with the capacity to leave when they want to, and also while equipped with the education, networks and self-esteem that a life of opportunity has… Read More ›
Opting Out
I’m not doing anything for Australia Day today, because I don’t want to be even potentially confused with one of the flag-waving jingoists.
Thought of the Day, grand romantic gesture department
Gifts shouldn’t be about what you want someone else to do, or be.
Haiti In Pictures: “You Can’t Show THAT”
In the news:
At long last…
… have they not a shred of decency?
Complacency, Indifference and Intent (or lack thereof)
various nay-sayers are arguing that the upswing in attacks on Indian students can’t have anything to do with structural racism in Australia, because none of the student visa laws that push overseas students into exploitative employment situations and allow deceptive “colleges” to fleece them while isolating them from Australian-born student bodies were intended to have a racialised separatist effect
Quotables: Jimmy Carter on Religion and Women
“The belief that women are inferior human beings in the eyes of God,” Mr. Carter continued, “gives excuses to the brutal husband who beats his wife, the soldier who rapes a woman, the employer who has a lower pay scale for women employees, or parents who decide to abort a female embryo.”
Hoyden About Town 