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Thanksgiving in Darfur

Wednesday 21 November 2007 at 9:24 pm Shall the survivors in Darfur celebrate Thanksgiving?  What will they celebrate... perhaps that they have thus far survived homelessness and rape and torture and starvation?  Is being a victim-to-be of genocide worth celebrating?

PDA discrimination

Thursday 08 November 2007 at 6:21 pm

Isn't it great that we live in a world where big impersonal corporations like Microsoft and Hewlett Packard are willing to take pains to design and implement "accessibility" features for deaf and blind people in their products?  The bad news is that discrimination against yet another class of people still continues: against left-handed people.


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Fools, Money, and Ethics Part II

Sunday 04 November 2007 at 7:49 pm

On October 23rd I ranted about NBC aiding and abetting the fraudulent deceit of Uri Geller. I honestly didn't believe that I could be the only person angry about the continued success of (people like) Uri Geller, but minutes ago, quite utterly by accident, I stumbled upon this Web comic - Cectic, part of the Skeptic WebRing - which echoes my rant perfectly:


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