Rowland Croucher
Caring and understanding
“Just because I don’t care, doesn’t mean I don’t understand” Homer Simpson
Justice – retributive or restorative?
Following an article – which I can’t find – titled ‘Retribution is not justice’ (Age 25/8/09) where criminal lawyer Greg Barns argued for ‘restorative justice’ as more constructive than ‘retributive justice’, these letters were published… We can use jail and still do good. Why don’t we? Letters August 26, 2009 A CUSTODIAL sentence as retribution […]
Suicide: talk about it
Time to break the silence on a last taboo * Jo Robinson and Patrick McGorry * August 24, 2009 Refusing to talk about suicide can do more harm to those at risk. SUICIDE is one of the last taboos operating in our society and we are now seeing that taboo challenged. Society has traditionally denied […]
Spiritual Intelligence
Spiritual Intelligence: A New Way of Being, Brian Draper, Lion, 2009. We know about rational intelligence (remember those IQ tests at school?). And emotional intelligence (you’ve read Daniel Goleman’s best-seller Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ). So if our cognitive and affective behaviors can be measured in terms of performance, someone had […]
Dancing Duck
A gentleman of the road enters a public house and approaches the landlord to ask “Please may I entertain your patrons for the price of my beer?” The landlord, on a whim, agrees. The gotr produces first a biscuit tin then a duck from under his filthy coat, he sets the tin upon the bar, […]
This bloke was several up on Goldilocks…
She only had three bears, but look at all Vincent van Gogh’s forebears… His dizzy aunt ———————————————– Verti Gogh The brother who ate prunes——————————- Gotta Gogh The brother who worked at a convenience store —— Stop N Gogh The grandfather from the Balkans —————————– U Gogh His magician uncle ——————————– Where-diddy Gogh His Mexican cousin […]
Belarus; Kazakhstan; Uzbekistan
FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief ================================================= 24 August 2009 BELARUS: AUTHORITIES PREPARE AGAIN TO EXPEL NEW LIFE CHURCH FROM ITS OWN BUILDING http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1339 Members of the New Life […]
Stella Awards
Put Stella Awards into Google to 1. See more of these outrageous goings-on, and 2. to note some false Stella Awards (which are crazy/funny to read anyway) It’s time again for the annual “Stella Awards”! For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and […]
Patriotism
This came from a Marine’s wife. It says it all: “I sat, as did millions of other Americans, and watched as the government underwent a peaceful transition of power a few months ago. At first, I felt a swell of pride and patriotism while Barack Obama took his Oath of office. However, all that pride […]
Religion and Violence
29 August 2009 I attended a seminar today where Professor Camilleri (Professor of International Relations, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia) spoke on Religion and Violence. Here are some of the notes I took (I hope they represent what he said: they certainly are what I heard; he speaks very quietly, and was without a microphone). […]
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