Tragedy

Steve Jobs, stupidity and stupid ideas

By Bruce Gorton | 24 October 2011

Orac has a post up discussing alternative medicine, and how we can’t say it killed Steve Jobs. Read More…

The Catholic Church stole and sold babies

By Bruce Gorton | 17 October 2011

Why is it every time I think “Eish this atheism business is getting a bit much” there is some news story that pulls me back into being angry with some religion or other? Today it is reading about 30 thousand babies the Catholic Church stole from Spanish mothers and then sold for adoption*.

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American Cancer Society rejects godless money

By Bruce Gorton | 12 October 2011

Via Pharangula: The Foundation Beyond Belief wanted to set up a donor drive where they would match up to $250k in donations to the American Cancer Society in the Relay For Life.

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A picture of Somalia

By Bruce Gorton | 21 September 2011
FEISAL OMAR / REUTERS

FEISAL OMAR / REUTERS

I think in verse, so it often takes a minute for me to translate something into normal speech. Some things I can’t so I write poetry. The following abomination about an abomination is the result.

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Abuse becoming fashionable?

By Bruce Gorton | 19 September 2011

Tyler Shields figured that the world needed a “Bruised Barbie” to show even Barbie gets bruises.

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On the Catholic Priest who allegedly raped an Anglican Archbishop

By Bruce Gorton | 13 September 2011

At the moment an Australian lawmaker (Nick Xenophon) is threatening to expose a Catholic Priest who runs a South Australian parish, if the church doesn’t move the guy the eff away.

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Outrage armour gets cracked

By Bruce Gorton | 4 September 2011

 

Continuing with the idea of dominance being highly important to a certain type when it comes to religion, and the negative effect of that is this video (H/T: Camels With Hammers.)

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Rhett S Daniels: The misuse of courts

By Bruce Gorton | 23 August 2011

One of the more infamous series of cases in terms of court abuse was Scientology’s policy of “Fair game” – in which the church used any and all means to “get” its critics.

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Ethics, News of the World, and free speech

By Bruce Gorton | 8 July 2011

Over the last three years there has been a mounting scandal over journalists at the News of the World hacking cell phones in the UK.

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The Castro Hlogwane Document: Chapter 12

By Bruce Gorton | 29 June 2011

Chapter 12 takes me right back to one of the things I noticed in the intro – the document writer still doesn’t know what a syndrome is. Read More…

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