Apologetics
Story of a Recovered Alcoholic…
A terrific story from my Facebook mate Bill Rossiter: My dad was an alcoholic. One time he was broke and hanging out for a drink. He saw an ad in the paper for an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. He thought to himself that he should be able to scrounge a drink in amongst all those alcoholics, […]
The Green Thing
In the line at the store, the cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. The woman apologized to him and explained, “We didn’t have the green thing back in my day.” The clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did […]
Australian Politics: Intelligent discussion all but extinct
Barry Jones July 21, 2011OPINION Tony Abbott’s objection to the proposed carbon price: ruthlessly simplistic. Photo: Peter Braig People are better educated than ever yet debate is dumbed down. An article by The Age’s Michael Gordon titled ‘He says She says’ last week, included a disturbing paragraph in which he quoted Tony Abbott, in South Dandenong, answering […]
All I know about ethics, I learned at sword-point
Keith Dunstan July 17, 2011OPINION Copies of Britain’s News of the World newspaper. Photo: AFP Keith Dunstan thought bending the rules was a lark – until the night he beat the police to the scene. ONE can only weep over the dreadful events that have caused the demise of the News of the World. The standards of […]
The Future of Price Spikes (this is serious!)
Red vs. green Rising incomes give more people a taste for meat, which is costlier to produce than vegetables Alexandre Severo for TIME Matthew Niederhauser / Institute for TIME Supply A fishmonger in Moscow. World fisheries’ production is projected to increase 15% by 2020 Igor Starkov / Agency.Photographer.ru for TIME Thomas Malthus lived in an era much like today’s […]
Hitler’s sex dolls for soldiers…
Hitler ordered Nazis to make sex dolls so soldiers wouldn’t catch syphilis from prostitutes By DAILY MAIL REPORTER 11th July 2011 Adolf Hitler ordered the Nazis to develop sex dolls to send to his troops being ravaged by disease after sleeping with French women, it’s been revealed. The synthetic ‘comforters’ were made from silicone and designed […]
Islam: Why do Muslim Women wear Head Coverings?
For Muslim immigrants in the U.S., the days following 9/11 were a harrowing encounter with American hate. iPod-bearing, second-generation techies faced insults in Silicon Valley parking lots; schoolgirls in headscarves were attacked; mosques across the country were vandalized. For many months, it seemed unclear whether America’s Muslims ¢â‚¬” from the cocktail-swilling secular to the mosque-attending […]
It’s All Greek to U.S.
by Fareed Zakaria illustration by oliver munday for time As Europe confronts another act in its Greek drama, many are watching and wondering, Is the U.S. next? Could our debt-ceiling debate be the beginning of a crisis that makes the world lose faith in American credit? Anything could happen, but it’s worth noting the […]
Islam: Was Churchill a Prophet?
From a friend: Winston Churchill was one very smart and observant man. I did check out the source: (check Wikipedia – The River War), and it seems Sir Winston actually wrote this short opinion of Islam at age of 25. Astonishing!. Gerry To think that this was written in 1899! Sir Winston Churchill – wrote this in 1899, […]
Rupert Murdoch’s biblical empire: How Rupert Murdoch profits from the Bible
Will Braun, columnist Canadian Mennonite WINNIPEG, MAN. Billionaire media titan Rupert Murdoch has made headlines over the phone hacking scandal that forced him to shut down his British tabloid, News of the World. But few people know that News Corp, the company Murdoch heads, also owns Zondervan, the world’s leading Bible publisher. News Corp, which took […]
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