Infidel753

Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Sign up today for cat life coaching . Poor ostrich ! Even on...

In September 2003 I began volunteering as what is known as a "pro-choice escort" at a Portland abortion clinic. For about the nex...

Factfulness by Hans Rosling (2018) This book ( buy it here ), by a Swedish doctor and medical researcher who has worked in some of the worl...

Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Cats are such graceful animals . Once wasn't enough for ...

Christianity has a bizarre obsession with blood.  A common metaphor for being "saved" is being "washed in the blood" of ...

Even if we someday find another planet which is basically habitable, it will probably be different enough in subtle ways to never feel quite...

Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Let these new TV channels really exist, please. US law stri...

A new indie group from the UK.  Found via Hackwhackers, which has some background .

As the global deployment of vaccines brings the end of the covid-19 pandemic into view, the coronavirus is enjoying a final surge with the h...

Now that a week of effort has finally dislodged the Ever Given from the bank of the Suez Canal, the backlogged flow of trade can get moving ...

I love the spirit of this.  Of course Congress should, and I think will, pass federal voting-rights protection to sweep away the Jim Crow re...

Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Don't believe everything you see . Eldritch evil lives w...

It's been just over 117 years since the Wright brothers achieved the first powered flight in December of 1903.  Compared with the full ...

The shroud conceals the humanity of the person, but the person is always there.  The voice-over is in Arabic -- translation: Look at her No,...

Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o St Patrick's Day has arrived! UK town names make a road...