Racism, Sexism and Privilege
Kate Carruthers Just came across two fairly old articles that are really worth reading: The Male Privilege Checklist by B. DeutschThis is a summary of the unconscious privilege to which able bodied…
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Hard work beats talent
I have seen many young, fit, intelligent people with a fine education, sound values and good family behind them. But they do not realise that what they make of them…
International Aid = False Hope for Africa?
Another interesting snippet re international aid and Africa: Tech Central Station – False Hope “Thus, the international aid system has essentially served to reward policies that slow down development, whatever…
Interview: For God’s Sake, Please Stop the Aid!
“The Kenyan economics expert James Shikwati, 35, says that aid to Africa does more harm than good. The avid proponent of globalization spoke with SPIEGEL about the disastrous effects of…
LIVE 8 – Why bother?
On the Live 8 website it states that: “Every single day, 30,000 children die, needlessly, of extreme poverty. On July 6th, we finally have the opportunity to stop that shameful…
Reasonable Hours of Work in the ICT Industry
A friend who works in IT support (for a very large and well known IT industry multi national doing security patching and stuff) just phoned me because his boss wants…
Cool dog monks
In my web travels I came across a monastery with monks that train and raise dogs. On their website they articulate some of joy and wisdom of having a close…
Article: Businesses don’t have social responsibilities; people do
This article has been reproduced in full below, it raises some very important issues about corporate and individual responsibility. Even staff in the Nazi concentration camps were assisted in rationalising…
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…