Andrew Sullivan sums it up. Guantanamo has been an incredibly ghastly episode for America. If any other country had done half of what we have done, our government and media would have condemned its behavior nonstop from day one. Yet I constantly meet people who think that all of…
Do you want to celebrate the modern sanitized version of Thanksgiving, or do you want to make a little ruckus with some Thanksgiving straight talk around the dinner table? It's one of my unprovable articles of faith that one of the most valuable gifts I give others is to be…
I've often heard about "flow," but never from the man who was personally responsible for developing the theory: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced "cheeks sent me high").
…but do I give a toss?
Recently, atheist bus ads have popped up in the UK and the US to much acclaim from freethinkers and much tiresome bitching & moaning from the usual suspects. Buses are so hot right now! However, an attempt by an Aussie atheist group to have their own ads on our buses has been unsuccessful. The Atheist Foundation of Australia wanted to buy ad space, the ad company, APN Outdoor, refused to sell it to them. And it seems they didn’t explain why. I certainly don’t see the harm in slogans like “Sleep in on Sunday mornings” or “Celebrate reason”, but I guess APN have their reasons. Such as – they’re a pack of bastards with double standards higher than Israel’s separation wall. So, yes, it’s disappointing. Even annoying! And refusing to take someone’s freely-offered money is just damned un-Australian.
Not to mention that glaring double-standard: the article explains that APN had buses in Adelaide plastered with the Bible verse John 3:16 – that’s the one about God loving the world so much that he had himself (in the form of his hippy son) tortured & executed to forgive us all of our sins, especially the original sin committed by Adam & Eve, the guilt of which apparently extends several millennia onto every last one of us, from birth – conception – no less, giving us no damn choice but to accept the hippy as our saviour. Nice. World’s oldest protection racket – “Say, that’s …
As you may or may not know, I am a documentary filmmaker working mostly within the very inbred and insular world of bodybuilding. From the local level to the pros, I have covered it all. A few weeks ago I was in New York shooting footage for a new documentary…