by Carl Howard | May 28, 2014 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Feminism and LGBT, History, Medicine, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Philosophy
You’ve probably seen stuff about the Isla Vista shooting everywhere (I’ll have links to good resources at the bottom of the post). Still, I thought it was worth addressing whether or not Elliot Rodger had a mental illness or not. Here’s a Facebook post by Maddox that...
by Carl Howard | May 15, 2014 | History, Resources, Food and Environment, Society, Travel
I don’t know a whole heap about life in the Gulf States (by which I mean Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman). But I’ve formed impressions from reading some online articles, looking at some stats, having a stopover in Qatar and...
by Carl Howard | Apr 9, 2014 | Atheism and Religion, Atrocities and Oppression, Charity and Philanthropy, Feminism and LGBT, History, Medicine, Resources, Food and Environment, Society
In 2010, John Scalzi wrote a pretty good post of the things that he doesn’t have to think about every day (that other people do). I wanted to try something similar but make it very detailed about a specific area. Food’s really yummy so why not food? Below is a list of...
by Carl Howard | Mar 4, 2014 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, History, Race
You’ll pry my Hitler comparisons from my cold, dead hands. You’ve probably heard of Godwin’s Law., it’s hard to be online and not encounter it. Originally it had this formulation: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving...
by Carl Howard | Jan 26, 2014 | Atrocities and Oppression, History, Race
You don’t need to do rocket surgery to see the above painting as a ridiculous farce, a racist mythology. The fact that Columbus Day is meant to actually celebrate a genocide should make us disgusted. And yet many “ordinary” people in the US don’t see the obvious...
by Carl Howard | Jan 10, 2014 | Charity and Philanthropy, History, Medicine, Race, Resources, Food and Environment
First, consider a question you probably don’t think about often and might consider indelicate: how you clean your bum after you do a poo? Hold the thought, it’ll come in handy in a sec later. TED talks. While they might have been an exciting new thing when they first...
