by Carl Howard | Aug 30, 2012 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Philosophy
Different apologists have different styles. One style is to be an academic apologist who is often associated with rigour and intellectualism in the eye of their audience. They often have academic posts and might have a reasonable and decent collection of published...
by Carl Howard | Aug 28, 2012 | Blog Topics, Interesting Stuff, Travel
Getting in:As mentioned in the previous post on Iran, this is quite complicated. As with the Central Asian republics there’s a 2 step process where you first need an authorisation (obtained through whoever you’re organising the trip with) and then you can use this to...
by Carl Howard | Aug 24, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
From the annals of stupidity: Nook ereader does an auto-replace in some books of “Kindle” with “Nook”. The result: a charming passage in War and Peace about how the soldiers had nookd their fires Another Onion classic: power grid restored in India meaning 300 million...
by Carl Howard | Aug 23, 2012 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Poems, Sex
I turned the hot knob down And shivered from the cold The daily shower is A ritual I hold I fastened on my belt And tied my pants up tight I cursed my sinful ways That daily do I fight For each time I engage In this vile, heinous sin The Big Man shoots a pup And puts...
by Carl Howard | Aug 21, 2012 | Atheism and Religion, Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Travel
The next country I went to after Turkmenistan is Iran. There are plenty of misconceptions about Iran in all countries (not just developed Western ones). Given that the situation has deteriorated a lot since my visit in Oct 2011, there will probably be even more...
by Carl Howard | Aug 17, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
Nice [alleged] quote I just learned about from Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) on whether other worlds are inhabited: “A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. It they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.” [Source] Amazing science bit I...
