World Day of Peace – the Pope’s Message (8 Dec 2004)
Kate Carruthers His Holiness Pope John Paul II and I have disagreed on many issues over many years (e.g. birth control, ordination of women, homosexuality, etc). However, there are many elements of…
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Paranoia – The Conspiracy Reader
Paranoia – The Conspiracy Reader: “Since 1992 Paranoia: The Conspiracy Reader has enlightened readers with alternative views and marginalized theories of the inner workings behind sociopolitical events.” This is one…
Junkscience.com – “all the junk that’s fit to debunk”
Junkscience.com – this site is fun to peruse from time to time. It takes Junk science, which is defined as “faulty scientific data and analysis used to advance special and,…
Conservatives Fight Back – “Beware the Entertaining ‘Food Police’ “
The conservatives fight back against Supersize Me – there is a new web site that dissects & attempts to demolish Spurlock’s arguments against McDonald’s: The “Food Police” are back, this…
Brushes with Fame
Sometimes through life you run into famous people – we call these ‘brushes with fame’ in my family. Recently I was reminiscing with friends about two brushes with fame that…
Stages in the Learning Journey
Speaking with friends who are educators of the young one, thing has become apparent. The idea that learning is achieved by building foundations or layers of knowledge is passe. The…
Only 26 more sleeps until the election is over!
It is with a grateful heart that I realise that it is only 26 more sleeps until the Australian election is over. Perhaps to liven things up during the campaign…
Liberal V. Conservative in Oz
Ally often has an amusing turn of phrase, recently she said that another blog she had read “reminds you of the time the light went on for you and you…
Olympics – two sides of the same coin …
Picture two different women competing in the Australian team at the recent Athens Olympics. The first had the misfortune to injure herself a few weeks prior to competition. She had…
More on Compulsory Voting …
Chris in a recent post over at Points of Information has a nice perspective on compulsory voting: “forcing indifferent people to turn out means that you drastically increase the amount…