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 …
Tag Archive: Charity
May 04 2013
SSA Saturday Blogathon
Today’s blogathon is over the weekend. Hopefully more of you will be about to hang out and raise money for the Secular Student Alliance and for all the good that they do. This year I set a rather small goal for myself. Unlike the big hitter blogs, I know I don’t have a massive following …
May 01 2013
SSA May Day Mayhem Blogathon – I Need Your Help! Please!
I am so lonely! Come keep me company! (Google Hangout) I understand that a variety of bloggers have offered bribes such as Cat Pictures (Hmph!) or to sing, but I lack such talents. Instead I shall offer witty banter… Fine! That’s clearly not good enough. I shall offer a forfeit. As of now we are …
Apr 07 2013
Secular Student Alliance Week
I will be part of the Secular Student Alliance Week and will be part of there blogathon here. For now you guys should “totally donate” to their cause, but if you wish to hold your donations, then I will ask on setting up a specific “Million Gods” donation page so we get bragging rights. If …
Apr 07 2013
The Price of Homelessness
A film-maker researching a documentary on homelessness was found dead in Newcastle. He had hoped to live like the homeless do and braved freezing temperatures to live like them.
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 24 2013
Help the Real Vampires, Be a Hero!
I know it’s a silly title but there are people who need blood to live. Want to be a hero? Most of us can do this. Give blood. It doesn’t matter where you live, donate if you can. I have donated to families so desperate that they would give EVERYTHING they had for just a …
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 15 2013
Apparently Warsi Failed to Get the Memo
You don’t need a god to be good. We know this, but no one’s told Baroness Warsi that. The problem here is what we define by “practise their faith”. No one has stopped any religious people from doing whatever it is they want to do UNLESS the practise of their faith was against the law. …
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