by Carl Howard | Jun 22, 2012 | Blog Topics, History
In case you missed the recent post that broke the internet, a Mormon blogger comes out as being gay and happily married to a woman who knows he’s gay and they have a great sex life etc etc. Over 6,000 words (apparently) of him and his wife explaining what it’s like....
by Carl Howard | Jun 5, 2012 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Evolution and Biology, Feminism and LGBT, Language, Science and Skepticism
Ages ago, it occured to me that some words are just red flags for ridiculous arguments. Not exactly groundbreaking, I know. Yet it was surprising that there’s quite a lot of them. In my biased experience, when someone uses one of these words in an argument, this is...
by Carl Howard | May 11, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
Amazing stunt biking at an abandoned industrial site. Research shows that for certain highways raising the speed limit will reduce the accident rate. Meaning the police department has gone and implemented these right away. Nah, just kidding, they’re still...
by Carl Howard | Apr 13, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
How not to teach maths What’s it like to be a male survivor of rape at the hands of a woman? James Landrith tells his story. PZ Myers on an Islamic cleric who thinks FGM has medical benefits. The post quotes one of the most offensive sentences (by said cleric) I’ve...
by Carl Howard | Feb 6, 2012 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, History, Race, Science and Skepticism
An awesome letter has been making the rounds on the internet. It’s a 1865 reply by Jourdan Anderson (a former slave) to his former master Colonel P.H. Anderson. P.H. Anderson wrote asking Jourdan Anderson* to come back to work for him. Jourdan Anderson was living in...
by Carl Howard | Jan 16, 2012 | Atrocities and Oppression, Blog Topics, History, Society
I’ve been reading a lot about the Gulags lately including the monumental Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. I’ll post more later but I thought it was especially important to translate a page by Shalamov that I found. Varlam Shalamov is famous for his Kolyma...
