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Forgiveness is overrated

January 25, 2010 – 11:13 pm

One of the advantages of being a skeptic is that you don’t have to reject positions articulated by religious figures just because you think they believe in fairies at the bottom of the garden, but also because you think that core chunks of their doctrine — including bits often regarded as wholly good and reasonable [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Economics, Feminism, Marriage, anthony daniels | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (49)

Political correctness on campus

January 21, 2010 – 8:36 pm

Via a friend, I came across this interesting piece on political correctness on US university campuses. The author starts out with a salutary tale:
In 2007 a student working his way through college was found guilty of racial harassment for reading a book in public. Some of his co-workers had been offended by the book’s cover, [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Academia, Australian internet filter, Education, Free Speech, Human/Civil rights, Literature, Personal liberty, Society | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (43)

Demolition Man

January 17, 2010 – 4:08 am

Royal Bank of Scotland shareholders have criticised the appointment of Sir Fred Goodwin by the architectural firm RMJM in Edinburgh. The consultancy role will be his first job since leaving RBS after the government bailed it out 15 months ago.
Roger Lawson, from the RBS Shareholder Action Group, said it was “ironic” Sir Fred got a [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Economics, Funnies, scotland | Tagged , , , | Comments (17)

Earliest political memories

January 15, 2010 – 7:25 pm

[Cross posted at Larvatus Prodeo]
Today my daughter was playing with her pink superball while my son was asleep (it’s small, so she’s only allowed to get it out while he’s sleeping). I heard her mutter to her toys while brandishing the pink superball, “This is the Prime Minister, and if you do something he doesn’t [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Children, Society | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (14)

You wouldn’t read about it

January 12, 2010 – 5:14 am

A Muslim protester accused of calling soldiers murderers at a parade claims he did not intend to upset anyone. Munim Abdul told Luton magistrates he did not expect to cause offence because his group had spoken “the truth”.
Seven men deny using threatening, abusive or insulting words and behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm and distress. [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in England, Fark!, Free Speech, Funnies, History, Immigration, Law, Religion | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (11)

Fancy an Indian?

January 11, 2010 – 1:51 am

An Indian man is in a serious condition in a Melbourne hospital after being attacked and set alight by a gang. It comes a week after an Indian graduate student was stabbed to death in the city, prompting a travel advisory from the Indian government.
Melbourne police said the latest attack appeared to be random and [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Australian internet filter, Funnies, Immigration, Law, Society | Tagged , , | Comments (7)

See the other side

December 23, 2009 – 3:43 am

Legal Eagle’s post on Lisa Pryor’s rather misguided criticism of the lawyerly tendency to see both sides of an issue got me thinking about the essence of one’s occupation as a lawyer. I think being able to see that the other fellow has a point is often part of it, although things like a careful [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Law, Philosophy | Tagged , , | Comments (35)

Wowsers are Winning

December 15, 2009 – 8:40 pm

Here at Skepticlawyer we’re shocked to see that the wowsers have apparently won the battle over compulsory internet censorship. The Age reports:
The Federal Government has announced it will proceed with controversial plans to censor the internet after Government-commissioned trials found filtering a blacklist of banned sites was accurate and would not slow down the internet.
But [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Blogging, Free Speech, Human/Civil rights, Internet, Law, Media, Personal liberty, Public Policy, Society | Tagged , , | Comments (24)

BLiar: Warmonger by his own admission

December 12, 2009 – 9:15 pm

It would have been right to remove Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein even without evidence that he had weapons of mass destruction, Tony Blair has said.
The former UK prime minister said it was the “notion” of Saddam as a threat to the region which tilted him in favour of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Funnies, Law, Middle east | Tagged , , , , | Comments (28)

Interesting times

December 1, 2009 – 10:29 am

The Chinese curse is, May you live in interesting times. I’m sure this has extra resonance for Malcolm Turnbull today. Tony Abbott won today’s Liberal Party leadership contest in a three horse race (where Joe Hockey was the first spill).
I rather agreed with Jacques’ assessment of Turnbull’s downfall at Club Troppo:
…[Turnbull] needed to adopt a [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Environment, Law | Tagged , , , | Comments (56)