by Carl Howard | Oct 2, 2012 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Travel
The kinds of things I’ll post here are probably what’s at the top of most people’s minds with respect to Iran. And certainly religion plays a very major role in Iran. There are a lot of atrocities that are reported in the international news, especially in terms of...
by Carl Howard | Sep 28, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
US abortion clinics are often lined with protesters harassing those going in and giving them “literature”. What happens when one of the people going in decides to give the protesters a pamphlet of her own (a Flying Spaghetti Monster one)? Hilarious inept bigotry: a...
by Carl Howard | Sep 25, 2012 | Blog Topics, Interesting Stuff, Travel
Here are some of the interesting things I noticed about culture and modern life in Iran. This is a particularly hard topic to list stuff about so I’m sure I missed some crucial things that I saw in favour of the stuff I happened to remember. Like most of the Middle...
by Carl Howard | Sep 21, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
Transphobic asshole: isn’t “giving” gender reassignment surgery to people the equivalent of “giving a paranoid schizophrenic who thinks he’s Napoleon a bicorn hat and a saber”? Zinnia Jones responds There’s a particularly bad job that Google hires contractors for:...
by Carl Howard | Sep 18, 2012 | Blog Topics, Interesting Stuff, Travel
Iran is obviously a pretty closed society. In terms of the state control of the media, one only needs to look at Press TV. Just poking around their US page, this was the top story as at 12 Aug: A military analyst [Gordon Duff] says police departments in the United...
by Carl Howard | Sep 14, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
Russell Glasser on how not to build inclusive communities. Summary: by not excluding certain people (in this case, those who want to flash their dicks around), you are effectively excluding a very large population — anything is is just Ayn Randian nonsense about level...
