Why the world needs nuclear weapons.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/214248
And I'm still waiting for George Puthucheary's obituary - 'An Atheist's Heaven'.
Thursday, 6 May 2010
Thoughts at the moment
Remembering how we all had different ways of saying "Deutshce" at RBC Dexia.
How I am stuck in the middle-class trap of not being smart enough to excel at anything, and being smart enough to be considered above-average.
How I am stuck in the middle-class trap of not being smart enough to excel at anything, and being smart enough to be considered above-average.
One thing to read this year
Learn from mistakes and take ideas. Copying is under-rated.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/30/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers?page=full
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/30/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers?page=full
Tuesday, 13 April 2010
OMFG Book the men
Somehow, there are people who believe that girls who dump their babies have all had immaculate conceptions.
If the law has no provision to hold the father responsible in baby dumping cases, don't charge anyone.
If the law has no provision to hold the father responsible in baby dumping cases, don't charge anyone.
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Cervical cancer vaccines: A step forward, maybe
It is good news that cervical cancer vaccinations are now provided for free by the government.
The only hope is that certain quarters do not equate this with a licence for promiscuity, an equation that only those with ignorant minds could make. Those that make these particular inferences will gladly ignore all the good that the decision in question will bring, in the defence of often antiquated moral high grounds.
Having this initiative approved would hopefully help drown out the voices against sound ideas. For example, in the interest of saving lives, the baby hatch idea remains a viable, if not desirable, first step.
To further extrapolate an argument in favour of rationalism versus blind conservatism, perhaps personal rights and dignity should eventually defeat outdated moral policing. Which would bring the end of television news showing footage of raids at massage parlours and hotel rooms where often only the masseuses and female companions are on film.
The only hope is that certain quarters do not equate this with a licence for promiscuity, an equation that only those with ignorant minds could make. Those that make these particular inferences will gladly ignore all the good that the decision in question will bring, in the defence of often antiquated moral high grounds.
Having this initiative approved would hopefully help drown out the voices against sound ideas. For example, in the interest of saving lives, the baby hatch idea remains a viable, if not desirable, first step.
To further extrapolate an argument in favour of rationalism versus blind conservatism, perhaps personal rights and dignity should eventually defeat outdated moral policing. Which would bring the end of television news showing footage of raids at massage parlours and hotel rooms where often only the masseuses and female companions are on film.
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