by Carl Howard | Oct 29, 2013 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Feminism and LGBT
One of my friends is now living in Moscow where he has spent some time debating supporters of Russia’s horrible homophobic laws. Last week, there was a Facebook thread where he wanted to clarify some thinking about gay adoption. The question (paraphrased by me) was...
by Carl Howard | Jan 21, 2013 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Feminism and LGBT, Sex
[NOTE: the above headline is a statement of my opinion.] I’ll admit, I’ve always disliked Alain de Botton. In a previous post, I’ve described him as a sanctimonious, pretentious, pseudointellectual asshole. That was based on a review of his latest book “How To Think...
by Carl Howard | Dec 24, 2012 | Blog Topics, Feminism and LGBT, Philosophy, Society
With the US election being a boon for marriage equality, Australia’s had some additional coverage. In this context, it was almost expected that an open letter to Prime Minister Giliard went viral. Usually I avoid the comments sections of such opinion pieces, not...
by Carl Howard | Nov 8, 2012 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Feminism and LGBT, Spirituality
Speaking of Buddhism, one thing I can’t stand is people giving the Dalai Lama a pass, and passing around inspirational images with his “wisdom quotes”. An example here: Not only are they usually deepities or Barnum statements or just trite but the Dalai Lama espouses...
by Carl Howard | Oct 11, 2012 | Blog Topics, Feminism and LGBT, Poems
Inspired by a True StoryTM of a certain playwright calling in to a certain reactionary talkback radio station. “What happened to a woman’s voice?” The caller said unto the host, “Your airwaves are chock full of men In this you’re even worse than most!” “Well sure, we...
by Carl Howard | Oct 4, 2012 | Blog Topics, Feminism and LGBT, Philosophy, Race
A while ago, one of my friends started a discussion on Facebook about porn. The question was something like: is porn “morally good or morally bad”? I thought I’d be the Socratic asshole and noticed that it was telling that the question even makes sense — if you...
