by Carl Howard | Jul 8, 2011 | Blog Topics, Interesting Stuff, Language, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Science and Skepticism
I’ve recently realised that not everyone is aware of this wonderful sentence. Having unrestricted access to a blog, I might as well introduce it. But first, a bit about garden path sentences. These are a lot of fun. They’re sentences which while grammatical have...
by Carl Howard | Jul 5, 2011 | Atrocities and Oppression, Blog Topics, History, Society
This post is the last in a series of 3 posts (first here, second here) about the monstrosities of the Russian prison system. As mentioned, I didn’t find the worst thing to be the terrible living conditions or even the tortures invented by the administration. The worst...
by Carl Howard | Jul 4, 2011 | Atrocities and Oppression, Blog Topics, History, Society
This post continues from last week’s post on a Russian prison system documentary. As I said, the poor living conditions may be the least of your worries. The second issue is kinds of abuses the guards dish out. I’m sure you’ve seen plenty of exposes of stunning abuse...
by Carl Howard | Jun 29, 2011 | Blog Topics
A few days ago ABC Australia made international headlines by publishing smuggled footage of North Korea showing dirty children begging for food and the army starving. Unfortunately this isn’t really news. Such things, and more, have been going on for probably a...
by Carl Howard | Jun 27, 2011 | Blog Topics, Feminism and LGBT, Language, Society
If you’ve been online in the last 3 months, you’ve probably seen the SlutWalk phenomenon. If not, a quick recap: Toronto Police Constable Michael Sanguinetti said “women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized”. The Toronto SlutWalk was...
by Carl Howard | Jun 24, 2011 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Super-Abridged Bible
This will be the last book I do for at least a few weeks so back to regular posts after this… Chapters 1-13: The life of Elisha the prophet King Ahaziah falls off the roof and sends messengers to ask the god Baal-zebub if he’ll recover. YHWH tells Elijah that Ahaziah...
