Hmm, nothing like a really depressing news story to start the day, even one that has been in the pipeline for some time. From the Guardian:
Illegal downloaders to get warning letter in government clampdown
Ah, splendid, just what we needed. This is, I think it is fair to say, a bit of a disaster. [...]
I have been reading a few things recently about the state of music in the 21st Century. Not the state of the music industry exactly, but the state of music itself and its relationship with its fans. There are a lot of things I want to write about in response to this, so [...]
Apart from serving as an extremely efficient Idiot Badge, and providing endless hilarity in the form of Tom Cruise’s infantile Messiah Complex, I think the bit I find most fascinating about Scientology is just how easy it shows it to be to get people to believe patently ridiculous things.
I assume many of them are quite [...]
Because of moving around an awful lot in my life, I have rarely voted. Now that I’m in Edinburgh I am settled enough to have voted in the last couple of elections and, now that I’ve done it, I find myself asking what the hell the point is.
That reflex response “Well if you don’t vote, [...]
I barely know how to react when I read articles like this one. A large part of me is on the verge of launching into a massive rant about self-obsessed fuckwits who manage to turn something as incredibly simple as diet into the carnival of self-loathing naval gazing that it has become. And another part [...]
I received this email in response to my post about herd reactions to political arguments and, at times, facts themselves. It was thoughtful and well-written so I thought it deserved elevating to post status. The other reason is that for all I am very anti-religious myself, I have plenty of religious friends who I like [...]
