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Right Wing bigotry
via Right Wing Watch
Fucked by a priest
This is most definitely not safe for work. Also contains strong language. If you’re offended by such language, then don’t click play:
Styling of WordPress post titles
Since the beginning of time (well, for a long time), I’ve always wanted to do something like this with my WordPress post titles:
The preposterousness of prayer
I can’t help but think of prayer as analogous to the spoilt and selfish child forever pestering his parents for a new bicycle. Let’s ignore the fact (for it is indeed a fact) that there is absolutely no scientific basis for the efficacy of prayer, beyond the psychological or psychosomatic resolution via internal discourse. However, […]
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The end of reason, indeed
A good Christian friend gave me a copy of Ravi Zacharias’ The End of Reason, written ostensibly in response to Sam Harris’ The End of Faith. The following is not a defence of Sam Harris, or any of the other so-called new atheists. It’s my own response to Zacharias, a well-known Christian apologist — I’m […]
Mechanical diggers
Passion, lust, addiction, and obsession are often maligned, relegated to the vices (as if they haven’t suffered enough bad press already), objurgated by the puritanical, sidelined by the apathetic. But a world devoid of, for example, obsession, would be a very dull world indeed. Obsession is frequently the principal ingredient of success, the primordial spirit […]
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Don’t drink the river
An increasing number of people are complaining about it. A Google search of the term returns some four million results. “Information overload” is not up there with Britney Spears, but it’s sizeable enough to warrant (merit?) these thoughts.
I just can’t help smiling each and every time I hear or read the term “information overload” — […]
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