I started my vacation on Tuesday, and since I’m running around Toronto getting into all kinds of adventures, I’m not particularly motivated to launch into a lengthy explanation for this video. If you can’t see the parallels between this and any religion that you might currently or formerly belong to, then you’re doing it wrong …
Monthly Archive: December 2010
Dec 16 2010
Free speech vs… The TDSB
Seriously, Toronto? What the fuck are you doing? Speaking at a Nov. 22 assembly at Northern Secondary School that was supposed to be a celebration of the school’s athletic achievements, Emil Cohen said: “We now have it instilled into us that soccer [at Northern] is synonymous with the word ‘unnecessary.’” Cohen, 17, said he was …
Dec 15 2010
Oklahoma does right thing for wrong reason
I can’t tell you how depressed I was after the last US mid-term elections. I likened it at the time to watching a good friend go back to her alcoholic, abusive ex-boyfriend because the new guy wasn’t enough of a “bad boy”. The Republican party in the United States has completely shed any air of …
Dec 15 2010
Oregon mosque burned in arson
In my mind, Oregon is known for two things: hipster Mecca (formerly known as Portland), and being the place you get to only after your entire family dies of dysentery. Well, I guess now it’s known for three things: A fire at an Islamic centre in the western US state of Oregon was started intentionally, …
Dec 14 2010
Heh. Heheheh.
The style of this blog is (what I hope is) high-minded polemic. I stake out a position, and explain why I hold it using news items, other blogs, and/or a painstaking step-by-step analysis of the logic behind the position. One of the techniques I most like to use is to state a counterargument to my …
Dec 14 2010
Two faces of India
You’ll undoubtedly have noticed by this time that the majority of these posts are taken from the news. I assume that you can read the newspaper yourself, I just try to pick out the juiciest nuggets and comment on them. Most of the pieces I write revolve around a single news item, which I use to …
Dec 13 2010
‘Tis the season… to shove it in their faces!
Cross-posted from Canadian Atheist, in direct (and repeated) violation of the unofficial policy prohibiting such things. This one will brief, since Hemant over at Friendly Atheist has already given us all the relevant information: The Atheism subReddit has taken up the cause to raise $42,000 for Doctors without Borders — the amount is an homage to Douglas Adams. …
Dec 13 2010
I find the defendant… not guilty
Last Monday’s “think piece” made reference to the title of a book called “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together at the Cafeteria?” What followed in my post was a discussion of some of the sociological and psychological factors that can influence people in a minority group to seek each other out. If you …
Dec 10 2010
Movie Friday: Wife-beating etiquette
“Wow,” you’re probably thinking “where exactly is Crommunist going with this?” Exactly where you think: Yeah… that just happened. Apparently, according to this man’s religious convictions, the way that Allah honors the wife is to prescribe the specific way in which her husband is allowed to “discipline” her through physical beatings. Allah also sets out …
Dec 09 2010
God Damn It (wording intentional)
Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. U.S. Senate Republicans have blocked legislation that would have repealed the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and allowed gay troops to be open about their sexual orientation. Democrats failed Thursday to cinch a procedural deal with Republicans in the waning days of the lame-duck session. The 57-40 …
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