I believe: How it works
British pharmacists are allowed as a matter of conscience by their regulatory body to pretend they believe that contraception is an “abortifacient”. A pharmacist who claims to believe that emergency...
View ArticleThe Prodigal Son
An unlikeable father who takes his sons for granted, lies to them, and forgets them when the New Shiny comes along. Is it any wonder the more dutiful son resents this and the less dutiful ran away?...
View ArticleWere you there in the aspen grove?
I’ve always liked the name aspen. There’s something pleasing about it. And the trees are pleasing too. They’re related to the birch, and it was nice to see some real broad leaf trees when I was in...
View ArticleNo, I’m not going to be polite about it
And I see no reason why I should be. Many many people have pointed out that a call for politeness, for some kind of superficial niceness, actually rarely serves to make the world a better place, or to...
View ArticleIn 1996
In 1996, Bill Clinton was president, Yahoo’s search-engine was two years old, and the Roman Catholic Church had slaves. — Fred Clark.
View ArticleNOM: Willing, deliberate liars
The National Organization for Marriage has been spreading a host of falsehoods about research into same-sex parenting. Every so I often I lob a tweet about this to Thomas Peters, NOM’s Communications...
View ArticleChristian Horror Films: Horrific Christian Culture?
Any time people get worked up about a menace they believe in but can’t actually see – demons, Commies, jihadis, hordes of hoodie-wearing thugs — they’re likely to take it out on the weakest and most...
View Article“my rights end where yours begin”
That’s the whole conundrum of invoking God as the singular rationale for or against public policy—God says lots of different things to lots of different people, and all of them think that they’re...
View Article10 years of pre-Trib porno
Fred Clarke has been writing about the awful phenomenon that is the Left Behind books for ten years now. Ten years! That’s … kind of magnificent, actually. I think the apocryphal Donny is still my...
View ArticleThe Wick End of Candles at the Close of a Long Night
The Wick End of Candles at the Close of a Long Night was published in the h2g2 Post on the 21st of September 2006. It’s a rather beautiful story by ianhimself. It’s set in Northern Ireland, and manages...
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