Breastfeeding and Fanatical Thinking

By now, I’ve found myself enjoying the presence and arguments of two… I don’t know, deeply conservative, devoutly religious sparring partners? Is that the right term? I don’t know, though it certainly fits. In this instance, the category is once again that of women’s rights and the desired interference of the religious right. The specifics […]

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Nintendo, E3 and The Legend of Zelda

Not for the first time, Nintendo’s presentation at E3 (held this year in Los Angeles) has rocked peoples’ worlds. It’s certainly rocked mine, for one very specific reason, which I will come to in more detail in just a moment. Before I roll into the main meat of this post, I would just like to […]

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The End of an Era

Today marks the last day of trading for an old workplace of mine. I paid my respects, so to speak, earlier on, given how long I worked there and the history I have with the place and its people. There’s a lot of mixed feelings bubbling around right now, because the company itself is not […]

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Blogging Theology and Segregation of the Sexes

Not for the first time, Paul Williams of Blogging Theology has put forward the notion that men and women need to be ‘partitioned‘ in order to improve society. The pretext for this argument (this time around) concerns cases of assault upon women at festivals. One in three women have reported being sexually harassed at these […]

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Old Evils

It all started with a murder. The scene that greeted police was of a break-in gone badly wrong. The victim, an elderly man in his late eighties, had been knifed in the abdomen, not once but three times as he struggled. Blood had soaked his dapper white shirt and congealed upon the cream carpet and […]

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