by Carl Howard | Apr 22, 2014 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Ethics, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Race, Society
I used to watch Law and Order. Embarrassing, right? For those who don’t know, it’s a long-running half-cop half-courtroom show focussing on the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. Naturally, the characters’ bias is going to be against defendants. One scene...
by Carl Howard | Apr 15, 2014 | Biases and Fallacies, Ethics, Medicine
“Whatever you do, stop drinking tap water!” my grandma told my mum over the phone a few weeks ago. When asked why, she said that she read in the paper about how ‘they’ found that Australian tap water has something carcinogenic in it. I use the term “newspaper”...
by Carl Howard | Apr 9, 2014 | Atheism and Religion, Atrocities and Oppression, Charity and Philanthropy, Feminism and LGBT, History, Medicine, Resources, Food and Environment, Society
In 2010, John Scalzi wrote a pretty good post of the things that he doesn’t have to think about every day (that other people do). I wanted to try something similar but make it very detailed about a specific area. Food’s really yummy so why not food? Below is a list of...
by Carl Howard | Mar 25, 2014 | Atrocities and Oppression, Blog Topics, Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Race, Society
Shortly before I took a blogging hiatus, I wrote a post on the rape singularity. To illustrate it, I wanted to find an image from one of the SlutWalk protests. It was meant to illustrate a strong counterpoint to victim blaming in a way that I thought might be a bit...
by Carl Howard | Mar 18, 2014 | Atheism and Religion, Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Society
Fred Phelps is in a hospice and close to death [UPDATE: he has now died], having also been excommunicated from his own church, with the believing family not allowed contact with him. If you don’t know who about Phelps, he is the founder of the God Hates Fags church...
by Carl Howard | Mar 4, 2014 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, History, Race
You’ll pry my Hitler comparisons from my cold, dead hands. You’ve probably heard of Godwin’s Law., it’s hard to be online and not encounter it. Originally it had this formulation: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving...
