by Carl Howard | Jun 24, 2014 | Atrocities and Oppression, Charity and Philanthropy, Ethics, History, Resources, Food and Environment, Society
Most people have probably heard of Oskar Schindler through Spielberg’s movie Schindler’s List. Schindler is the most famous member of 25,271 people called Righteous of the Nations. These are non-Jews identified by the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum to have committed...
by Carl Howard | Jun 16, 2014 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Ethics, History, Race
Last week, the Sydney Morning Herald published a turd of an article titled How racist are you? by Mark Sawyer. It was so screwed up and misguided that I thought it’s a perfect thing to pick apart. It inadvertently does a great job of highlighting some of Australian...
by Carl Howard | Jun 2, 2014 | Biases and Fallacies, History, Race, Society, Travel
This March I was in Israel for a wedding. We flew to Eilat, a holiday destination at the very south of Israel, on the Red Sea. Eilat is right near the border of Egypt and Jordan and you can see both countries right across a small stretch of water: Here’s a photo I...
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 20, 2014 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, Interesting Stuff, Race, Resources, Food and Environment
The image has been spreading for a few weeks and has found its way to Reddit, Imgur and Viralnova. The background is that the farmer’s wife died and he sold his possessions and worked really hard to put his son through university. And now he has, with the son wearing...
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...
