by Carl Howard | May 20, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Society
Today is Everybody Draw Mohammed Day, an initiative launched by a Seattle cartoonist as a response to the Comedy Central/Southpark/Mohammed cartoons/Mohammed in a bear suit nonsense. Apparently the creators have now dropped the gag after it became controversial. This...
by Carl Howard | May 3, 2010 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Charity and Philanthropy, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Science and Skepticism
I think the most famous quote from Stalin, or at least the one most famous outside the Russian-speaking world is “The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic”. This looks to be an urban legend but the sentiment is certainly true. We are...
by Carl Howard | Apr 22, 2010 | Blog Topics, Ethics, Evolution and Biology, Philosophy, Society
This past Saturday I was in lovely Kiama and decided to go for a wander through the cliffs past the Kiama blowhole. Just before the path to the cliffs, the council put up a sign to the effect of: “Warning! This is risky business. Going past this sign places in you in...
by Carl Howard | Apr 7, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Atrocities and Oppression, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
After a brief hiatus thanks to holidays and conferences about nothing, regular blogging should be back. I’ve yet to catch up on the blogging-the-Bible posts but I was spurred to write about the Bible and terrorism thanks to this recent post by Keren Tuch The Jewish...
by Carl Howard | Oct 13, 2009 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Resources, Food and Environment, Society
First World Third World Plentitude Starvation Liberal Democracy Genocidal Dictatorship Education Superstition Whites Non-whites Technology Poverty High life span Death before 40 2 child families 9 child families Widespread contraception Genital mutilation You...
by Carl Howard | Sep 28, 2009 | Blog Topics, Evolution and Biology, Philosophy, Science and Skepticism, Sex
Laura Schlesinger once said: “If you’re gay or a lesbian, it’s a biological error that inhibits you from relating normally to the opposite sex” (Source). This created a lot of uproar, but it got me thinking about whether she could “technically” be right (despite her...
