Welcome one and all to the Meerkat Muse. Big Openings Well, it wasn’t exactly big, but after four years of stop-start progress, disruption from pandemics, war and corporate failure, the cinema in the centre of town has finally opened. It has been a challenging genesis for the cinema! When work began at the start of […]
Confession time. I am writing this post over a year ahead of time. We haven’t even had the ninth anniversary of Meerkat Musings, and here I am, writing about the 10th! Why pull the trigger on writing the post now? That’s simple, because I can. I have a whole year to reminisce and reflect upon […]
I was briefly at a loss for words here. If ever there was a not-so-subtle way of saying ‘screw the 1st Amendment’, it is this. Conservative Christians have long-claimed that they are the poor, persecuted bunch, which is a claim sitting in defiance of their long-standing positions of power in US politics. ‘In God we […]
For some reason, society holds victims of one form of crime to completely different standards. Is this because of the form this crime takes? It would seem so. Consider that no one would consider blaming a murder victim for getting murdered. No one passes on ‘mitigating circumstances’. No one asks what the victim did to […]
Following on from this post (where I explored the concept of certainty), I thought it may be interesting to consider what burden of proof is, and I may well dip my paws into a couple of related ideas. On a related note, my pal Bruce Gerencser wrote a post on this subject a couple of […]
Recently, David Thiessen of Theology Archaeology (who remains too cowardly and too afraid to use my real name, or link to my site, because he is afraid of accountability, I wonder if I should resume using his real details, instead of remaining complicit in his deceit?), wrote an angry post, where he took aim at […]
Recently, my friend Bruce Gerencser posted an article via FAIR, which is an organisation for Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting. FAIR’s post makes for a fascinating read, and quite pertinent to recent discussions I’ve been having. For a frame of reference here, I’d recommend The Parasitic Religious Right, The Dividing Line, The Dividing Line P2, […]
Loosely inspired by conversations with Citizen Tom, and building on previous posts here, here and here, let’s ask some questions, and attempt to provide answers. A very good starting point would be this comment of mine over at Tom’s site, and his response: What would you suggest as a replacement (to federally-funded education)? A for-profit […]
Following on from this post, this post, and this post by Bruce Gerencser, and factoring in a post of Citizen Tom’s I thought I’d continue this little series. Bruce’s post framed the topic of public money around education, which is a good point to follow up. Some people – usually from the religious right – […]
Recently, Citizen Tom wrote a post decrying democratic socialism. Leaving aside serious questions around whether or not the Democrats of the US political system are truly socialists (or even whether they have serious socialist leanings, something that is highly debateable), his post serves as the foundation for some interesting discussion points. Democratic Socialism As defined […]
Since getting home, the cat has been convinced he's owed about a million meals, and has incessantly reminded us of this.
The Daily Mail readership has dropped 32%, people are saying they will be bankrupt before 2030 because no-one wants to advertise in them.
I'm sure that if we RT we can bring their downfall sooner, and GB News too.
Well, it's been a hectic week in sunny Sicily, hot and lovely, albeit I feel like I've barely tanned!
As a cub, I wore a uniform to school. At infant and junior school, it was little more than smart trousers and a cardigan with the school logo upon it. At senior school, the uniform became something not dissimilar to what you see in the above pics. There was a jacket (referred to as a […]
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