We hit our target! We have achieved $500! Everything we do now is beating the target! I am blogging as part of the Secular Student Alliance’s blogathon. I am trying to aim for a blog post every so often unlike the shambolic haphazard events of Tuesday. In addition? I am accepting “requests”. The link to the …
Category Archive: Causes
May 04 2013
SSA Blogathon – And So It Begins!
Well! The Hangout is now properly online. People are there discussing things (Smoking Meat and Swamps…) but we have a variety of things to do including playing our version of Cards (well Hangouts) Against Humanity while I blog. Update – We are now just $5 short of the Target, so anyone who wants to round …
May 04 2013
SSA – Million Gods hangout now live
The SSA Blogathon by A Million Gods and Associated People (Tiga – My girlfriend may be around so you guys are welcome to come see that she is totally real and not a figment of my nerd imagination! Piano Black may also make time for this) will be online and hanging out so come say …
May 03 2013
SSA Blogathon Schedule
Well I am doing another SSA blogathon schedule tomorrow with Tiga. Both of us will be on a Google Hangout and I will be taking suggestions. I won’t be doing the “blog every 30 minutes” malarky. It’s just ridiculously hard and I feel I was blogging terribly. I shall be aiming for once every hour. …
Apr 30 2013
Secular Students Alliance Blogathon
Well my 12 hour blogathon starts now, you can follow what I am doing on the hangout. My fund-raising page is here and while I don’t think I can match the “thousands” that other bloggers are capable of doing, I have set my goal for a much less lofty $500. This can be revised. I …
Mar 24 2013
Suicide is Painless
One of the biggest influences in the kind of doctor I wanted to be wasn’t my parents but a TV show. I know it sounds cliche but everything I learnt about being there for your patients I learnt from MASH. Suicide in the UK has become the biggest killer of young men aged 30 to …
Mar 23 2013
How to Break your Heart
There is nothing happy in this post. There is however something you can do to make others happy. Just writing this broke my heart and genuinely made me tear up. I couldn’t continue writing what I had written without crying. The following post is just that sad. You can’t make this kind of …
Mar 14 2013
The Other Malala
Sometimes we need to read deeper into the stories that grasp our attention. We are all familiar with Malala and her brave stance. But remember, the Taliban didn’t just shoot her. They shot other people too. Seema Jilani makes an excellent point here. We have basically picked a poster child for women in Afghanistan but …
Feb 14 2013
A Further Fundraiser For Christina Stephens (Urgent – Pass it On)
If you haven’t heard it elsewhere then there is news about Christina who blogs at What Would JT Do (as Ziztur) and indeed blogged here for a short period of time. Basically? She injured her leg quite badly and as with all complex fractures there is a chance of complications. So rather than undergo years …
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