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Finally got round to two documentaries of interest I taped over the weekend: the first, 'The Muslim Hangover Cure', was an 'authored documentary' (ie, hopelessly biased polemic) by a muslim A&E doctor. Now, fair enough, patching up a chap who's come in after nutting a lamp-post is unlikely to endear the great British night out to anyone. But the presenter...he's going on about the cost to the NHS of alcohol, but the whole time I'm looking at him and thinking, yeah, well how about the cost to the NHS of obesity, you fat prick? And he's suggesting that the answer is to raise alcohol prices - well, either he doesn't know that drinks are much cheaper in the rest of the supposed 'single market' (in which case he's a moron, and his arguments do not deserve our attention) or he does (in which case he's a disingenuous opportunist, and his arguments do not deserve our attention). ( Read more... )
I'm somewhat mystified, btw, as to why Channel 4 showed a programme about binge drinking on a Friday evening, when anyone with any sense is out binge drinking.
As against the resurgence of the ghastly, ignorant past represented by Fatty Torquemada there, consider Do You Want To Live Forever?. Aubrey de Grey may have an even worse beard, but he still does such a brilliant job of incarnating the future, the quest for knowledge, hope. He has come to the fairly obvious conclusions that dying sucks, and old age is even worse - so he wants to end them, and he's got some pretty good ideas about where to start. Now, unlike Fatty he's not talking about doing anything compulsorily, so why does he arouse such dislike in some people? Could it be that they're still in thrall to some remnant of the old, accursed concept that certain advances are 'against nature' and that this is somehow a complaint? ( Read more... )
Of course, the combination of believing in evolution and 'playing god' is doubtless utterly unacceptable in certain quarters, so once he starts getting anywhere he'll be held back while millions rot and die unnecessarily, all in the name of 'religious sensitivity'.
Lords reform retains a proportion (to be decided) of appointees, "does not propose removing Church of England bishops and archbishops". I suppose we should just be grateful they're not to be joined by other 'community leaders'.
"In Tampa FL, a rape victim was held in jail after her rape - police found a supposedly unpaid fine from her teen years (her lawyer said it had been paid) and busted her for it - where a Born-Again Christian attendant refused to let her take the necessary second dose of the morning after birth control pill prescribed her by a doctor. The pill - which the forced labor movement abhors - needs to be taken in two stages. There are so many crazy things about this situation my head spins just trying to narrow them down, but the story joins with so many others to meld into a single message: stay the hell out of Florida. (Tampa police, by the way, say the incident is "being looked into.")"
And meanwhile, in Kerrang!, Corey Brandan of Norma Jean is asked how he reconciles his band's christianity with the rebellious heritage of the metalcore music they make. His reply: "It's almost getting to the point now where Christianity is the rebellion."
I'm somewhat mystified, btw, as to why Channel 4 showed a programme about binge drinking on a Friday evening, when anyone with any sense is out binge drinking.
As against the resurgence of the ghastly, ignorant past represented by Fatty Torquemada there, consider Do You Want To Live Forever?. Aubrey de Grey may have an even worse beard, but he still does such a brilliant job of incarnating the future, the quest for knowledge, hope. He has come to the fairly obvious conclusions that dying sucks, and old age is even worse - so he wants to end them, and he's got some pretty good ideas about where to start. Now, unlike Fatty he's not talking about doing anything compulsorily, so why does he arouse such dislike in some people? Could it be that they're still in thrall to some remnant of the old, accursed concept that certain advances are 'against nature' and that this is somehow a complaint? ( Read more... )
Of course, the combination of believing in evolution and 'playing god' is doubtless utterly unacceptable in certain quarters, so once he starts getting anywhere he'll be held back while millions rot and die unnecessarily, all in the name of 'religious sensitivity'.
Lords reform retains a proportion (to be decided) of appointees, "does not propose removing Church of England bishops and archbishops". I suppose we should just be grateful they're not to be joined by other 'community leaders'.
"In Tampa FL, a rape victim was held in jail after her rape - police found a supposedly unpaid fine from her teen years (her lawyer said it had been paid) and busted her for it - where a Born-Again Christian attendant refused to let her take the necessary second dose of the morning after birth control pill prescribed her by a doctor. The pill - which the forced labor movement abhors - needs to be taken in two stages. There are so many crazy things about this situation my head spins just trying to narrow them down, but the story joins with so many others to meld into a single message: stay the hell out of Florida. (Tampa police, by the way, say the incident is "being looked into.")"
And meanwhile, in Kerrang!, Corey Brandan of Norma Jean is asked how he reconciles his band's christianity with the rebellious heritage of the metalcore music they make. His reply: "It's almost getting to the point now where Christianity is the rebellion."
