Welcome back to the Meerkat Muse! What’s been happening kats? The End of the Euros Road On the 10th of July, England (who had somehow scraped their way to the semi-finals of Euro 2024) faced the Netherlands for a place in the final. Awaiting either side would be Spain, who had come from behind to […]
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 […]
Recently, I saw a post written by Insanity Bytes, which spoke of yet another sexual abuse scandal involving a Christian pastor. It is worth noting that this sort of scandal is not limited to the Church, nor to any specific faith, nor is it the exclusive domain of the religious. It seems that the sexual […]
Recently, David Thiessen of Theology Archaeology has dramatically ramped up his aggressive rhetoric, and gone as far as to call me a chicken, for refusing to respond to a challenge to debate, or to back up my claims. He believes my recent post, on the topic of Burden of Proof, was aimed at him in […]
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 […]
I recently became aware of a vile comment left on someone’s blog, around eleven years ago, where the commentator called the author a ‘warped moron’, because the author shared a touching story about the birth of two of their children. It seems sharing a personal story filled with love greatly upset this troll. Why would […]
We are moving into summer, but are we getting a summer?! Welcome back to the Meerkat Muse! Feeling Low Recall that, right at the end of the previous Muse, I’d mentioned I had begun to feel under the weather? Well, that feeling accelerated rather rapidly, and as per the Wednesday, I was feeling quite sorry […]
Inspired by this post over at the Monthly Mosquito, I thought I might talk about social cues, and drift into social awkwardness too, and maybe also talk about a bit of social awareness. Angela’s post referenced the tendency of some travellers to place a bag or rucksack on a neighbouring seat on a train. This […]
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 […]
Working in retail sales, you will inevitably face people who feel the need to be passive-aggressive and awkward. These traits are not likely to yield any favours, yet there are still people who think that being rude and difficult will grant them preferential treatment. Here’s a newsflash to those people: it won’t. My approach to […]
I'm gonna confess that my microwaved coffee was not that bad, but it was not as good as the one I subsequently made.
My daughter just suggested I am Richard from Gumball. I am honoured.
I’m quietly hoping Piastri wins this. #HungarianGP
EDIT: this post was written a few weeks ago, before Joe Biden withdrew his candidacy for the 2024 elections. I’ve left it otherwise unmodified, because I believe the overall point stands. Leaving aside for a moment my opinions as to who would be a better president, my thoughts drift to whether or not either candidate […]
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