[ezcol_1third]I stumbled on an anti-MMR discussion on FB last night. Couldn’t resist sticking my oar in of course. Human beings have wonderful brains but, untrained, we are hopeless at stats and not much better at any kind of rigorous thinking. … Read More »
SSC followers will recall a recent post in which I referred to Mick’s alarm at discovering he agreed with something Hitchens had written in the Mail on Sunday. Sadly, his worries have deepened, as an email just yesterday shows: Re … Read More »
I don’t believe an intelligent force is guiding evolution. I do believe, pace Marx, that the ways humans organise themselves to produce and reproduce the material conditions of existence – rather than ideas of any kind, let alone metaphysical ones … Read More »
Saeed just sent this piece from Middle East Eye on oil and gas aspects of the Syrian horror. It’s one-sidedly silent on the designs of the west, and speaks of Russia’s “imbalanced reactions” to having one of its planes shot … Read More »
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I’d been listening on and off all day to tributes from the great and good, but tops for me was a barmaid this evening at the Norfolk Arms in Ringinglowe. “No one had a bad word to say about him”, … Read More »
In a characteristically witty email today, my pal Mick shared his horror at realising he agreed with something Hitchens had written in the Quail on Sunday. Relax Michael. It’s cognitive dissonance makes us uncomfy when people with views we detest … Read More »
If I hadn’t spent my Xmas/New Year gap week in Copenhagen I’d probably have filed Danish Girl – man discovers he’s a woman trapped in the wrong body – under Worthy-but-Dull and given it a miss. So I’m now doubly … Read More »
[ezcol_1half] [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end]Michael White’s Guardian piece yesterday … do give it a read and tell me if and when, in any newspaper alleged to be ‘quality’, you ever saw anything so crass and childish. White contrasts the “tough” north – … Read More »
[ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end]This is a film review. Dylan Avery made four versions of Loose Change, setting out the ‘Truther’ case for 9/11 as an inside job to legitimate Bush-Cheney’s middle east capers. I saw the first cut twice, thought it tripe … Read More »