Archive for December, 2010

Christmas is the worst religious holiday

By Bruce Gorton | 30 December 2010

Christmas should be a time of giving, getting and being generally nice to each other. It should be awesome. Except we have a war on Christmas declared over “Political correctness.”

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Anti-abortion and anti-life

By Bruce Gorton | 27 December 2010

A lot of people proclaim themselves anti-abortion and therefor pro-life. These people also tend to support wars of aggression and  the death penalty while opposing public welfare for single mothers and healthcare but I digress.

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Black and white and green all over

By Bruce Gorton | 23 December 2010

Over the last two days I have been driving around the Johannesburg area taking photos to go up as generic pictures when we get stories.

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Catholic Church versus China

By Bruce Gorton | 22 December 2010

I fully oppose how China believes the state has a place regulating what goes on inside people’s heads, who gets a voice and who doesn’t, and just what information people have a right to know – with the main qualifier being how embarrassing the president would find it.

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A Supreme cluck-up

By Bruce Gorton | 21 December 2010

This weekend it was revealed that Supreme Poultry has been, how shall we say, recycling chickens.

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The Thor controversy

By Bruce Gorton | 21 December 2010

There is a bit of a controversy surrounding how basically unfaithful to Norse mythology the next Thor movie is going to be – because Heimdall is going to be black.

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Atheism: Why it is perfectly reasonable to point to science

By Bruce Gorton | 20 December 2010
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Science will probably never give us all the answers we want, but what answers it does give us are fairly consistent and well evidenced.

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Youth festival flop

By Bruce Gorton | 15 December 2010

The World Youth and Student Festival pretty much sums up why the ANCYL doesn’t really work for the youth of this country.

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Ideological answers to Wikipedia

By Bruce Gorton | 14 December 2010

When Wikipedia started out it was considered to be of highly dubious worth when it came to research.

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Wikileaks: Which public’s interest matters?

By Bruce Gorton | 13 December 2010

Am I alone in noticing that in a lot of these public interest debates around Wikileaks, the public interest seems to be treated as being the same thing as the American public interest?

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