by Carl Howard | Nov 11, 2013 | Atrocities and Oppression, History, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness
Young members of the Khmer Rouge, Tuol Sleng Museum, Phnom Penh It’s a cliche that various horrible events from the 20th century have changed the popular understanding of human behaviour — but it’s true. It particularly hit me in the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum looking...
by Carl Howard | Nov 23, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
Zinnia Jones on talking about Hormone Replacement Therapy in a world that’s both sexist and clueless about what people go through. How the Catholic League (headed by world-class asshole Bill Donohue) is essentially a large-scale, highly-driven organisation whose aim...
by Carl Howard | Nov 16, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
Leslie Chang on The voices of Chinese workers. In short, by making all discussion about Chinese factories about our conception of the horrible working conditions without actually speaking to Chinese workers and listening to them, we condescend, miss the point and make...
by Carl Howard | Nov 9, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
They may belong to a wacko part of the political landscape but when they’re right, they’re right. Reason.TV smacks down Samuel L Jackson’s Wake the Fuck Up video by looking at Obama’s record on military drones, civil liberties and so forth. First there was the...
by Carl Howard | Nov 2, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
Sarah Silverman’s awesome video about recent changes to voter ID laws. If you can use your gun license to vote but not a veterans card, why not give people gun licenses to overcome these laws? What happens when Obama supporters are told about some of his policies (the...
by Carl Howard | Nov 1, 2012 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Poems, Society, Travel
[The Central Asia wrapup post prompted me to attempt to say the same thing in verse.] I hate the ramblings of Those trendy travelling wankers At home their life’s a bore They’re lawyers, tradies, bankers Yet get them overseas Especially to places That they think are...
