by Carl Howard | Apr 28, 2015 | Interesting Stuff, Science and Skepticism, Sex
[CN: Contains links to SFW pages on NSFW/porn sites] Everybody loves a good porn usage story in the mainstream media. The latest one to hit the rounds was this one from Salon/Alternet about the Middle East’s use of porn, but these stories do the rounds quite...
by Carl Howard | Apr 23, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, History, Race
This Saturday, April 25th, Australia will commemorate the ANZAC Centenary. On April 25th 1915, the ANZAC troops landed in Gallipoli, and there will be plenty of information about that in the media and in official channels –– before, during and after. This makes it...
by Carl Howard | Mar 24, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Race, Resources, Food and Environment
I’m liveblogging tonight’s ThinkActChange: Ending the Asylum Seeker Debate event. Speakers include: Kon Karapanagiotidis, Founder & CEO – Asylum Seekers Resource Centre Ben Doherty, Journalist – The Guardian Imogen Bailey, Actress & Ambassador, The Hot Potato...
by Carl Howard | Mar 19, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Language, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Race, Sex
Because the internet NEEDS another opinion on trigger warnings/content notes! Act 1 A long time ago in a parallel universe, writing was AuthenticTM. A host of manly men created great literature and disseminated them to the public. Everything was great and everyone got...
by Carl Howard | Mar 12, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Ethics, History, Race
here was a post shared by a Facebook [ex-]friend a few months ago. I found it super-racist, to the extent that I chose to block him rather than try to engage. I will however address it here because it contains a lot of important+useful details about the Australian...
by Carl Howard | Feb 25, 2015 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Ethics, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Resources, Food and Environment, Science and Skepticism
You know what’s really fucking annoying? When someone has a list of cognitive biases of fallacies that they love to stick on situations. “You’ve just committed an egreggious case of petitio principii, also known as begging the question for you plebs!” and the like....
