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...
![Do they know it’s International Women’s Day [in Afghanistan]?](https://failbluedot.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/afghanistan_protest_1.jpg)
by Carl Howard | Mar 9, 2014 | Feminism and LGBT, Race, Society, Travel
Vignette the First A few months ago I was in a conversation where International Women’s Day was brought up. Specifically, the question of whether a particular someone would know what it is. One person (let’s call him Bob) said “Of course they do, it’s celebrated...
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...
by Carl Howard | Feb 18, 2014 | Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Society
You’ve probably heard about the Enders Game boycott. If not, it’s targeted at an upcoming sci-fi movie that’s based on a book of the same name by Orson Scott Card. The book is very famous and regularly makes lists of top sci-fi movies of all time (although this...
by Carl Howard | Jan 27, 2014 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Ethics, Society
I saw a meme recently (captioned “He lost an arm. She had a double mastectomy. This is their Christmas card…”): Woman getting a bra as a Christmas present, man using hook to take out a present which is a glove for the hand he’s missing. Both look sheepish. This...
by Carl Howard | Jan 26, 2014 | Atrocities and Oppression, History, Race
You don’t need to do rocket surgery to see the above painting as a ridiculous farce, a racist mythology. The fact that Columbus Day is meant to actually celebrate a genocide should make us disgusted. And yet many “ordinary” people in the US don’t see the obvious...
