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The Paranormal Panel – Women and Woo

August 25, 2009 – 7:07 pm

I’ll be appearing on 4BC’s ‘Paranormal Panel’ discussing matters skeptical at some point in the next hour. I don’t think people from outside Brisbane will be able to get the live broadcast, but they do podcasts and downloads, so you can have a listen afterwards if you’re keen on that sort of thing.
[UPDATE: I'm reliably [...]

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‘Your taste is in your arse!’

August 5, 2009 – 8:30 am

Finally, I’ve found a piece that pins the tail on the one donkey that hasn’t been properly skewered in the whole Vile and Tacky episode that Legal Eagle’s already covered. Over at The Punch (a blog I haven’t encountered before), a young chap (judging by his picture) called Chris Deal makes this point:
But there’s one [...]

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There’s something about monotheism…

July 28, 2009 – 12:10 am

Via Dave Bath, I’ve learnt that leading Spanish director (he won Best Foreign Language Oscar in 2005 for  Mar adentro) Alejandro Amenábar has made a film about classical scientist Hypatia. It’s to be called Agora and stars Rachel Weisz. For those unfamiliar with the background, Hypatia (an astronomer) was killed in appalling circumstances by a Christian mob shortly after Christian [...]

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And they say all politicians are liars….

July 19, 2009 – 6:00 am

Jacqui Smith feared she was not up to being home secretary and wished she had been better trained for the role, she reveals in a magazine interview. She told Total Politics magazine she had “never run a major organisation” before accepting the job in 2007.
“I hope I did a good job but if I did [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in England, Funnies, Politics, Terrorism | Tagged , , , , | Comments (2)

Things that make me proud

June 21, 2009 – 10:48 am

Jim Belshaw wrote a post listing 5 things that make him proud, and has tagged SL and I to do the same. I’m not going to write a list, mainly because I’m terrible at lists. I struggle with memes.
The main thing in life that makes me proud is family: my children, my husband, my sister, [...]

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‘These are the days of miracle and wonder’

June 14, 2009 – 8:03 pm

A few thoughts occasioned by our fighting over abortion and law, abortion and terror, abortion and Christianity, abortion and rights. They are scattered thoughts, alas. These debates do not bring out the best in us.
As I wrote it I was listening to War of the Worlds. Go figure.
1. When my parents married, my father refused [...]

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MONDAY FUNNIES: Selective Termination

June 2, 2009 – 5:57 am

A prominent US abortion doctor has been shot dead at a church in the city of Wichita, Kansas.
Dr George Tiller, one of the few US doctors who performed late-term abortions, had been vilified by anti-abortionists in the US. The gunman fled in a car, but officials say a suspect is now in custody. US Attorney [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Funnies, Human/Civil rights, Personal liberty, Politics, Pregnancy, Religion, Society, Terrorism | Tagged , , , | Comments (160)

Predictably enough…

May 31, 2009 – 3:55 pm

President Obama has appointed Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court to replace David Souter. Predictably enough, elements in the Republican Party have questioned her appointment. The criticisms are not of her gender and ethnicity per se, but of certain comments she made at a talk in 2001 about the gender and ethnicity of judges:
Newt [...]

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Some melancholy cliometrics

May 17, 2009 – 3:07 am

Often, the historian does not have what he wants, but what he gets. Consider the ancient world. The Roman Empire was a large affair, a huge, literate, rationally administered, urbanized fact, extending over at least six centuries. From it their survive 10 million words in Latin, and 100 million in Greek. Of these, 90% are [...]

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Judging potential judges

May 13, 2009 – 2:10 pm

Justice Souter of the US Supreme Court is about to retire, and President Obama must appoint a successor. As soon as Souter J announced his retiremet, the speculation started:
President Barack Obama pledged Friday to name a Supreme Court justice who combines “empathy and understanding” with an impeccable legal background to succeed liberal David Souter, whose [...]

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