About Berlusconi’s “Suntanned Obama” Remark
I am deeply amazed by and profoundly at unease with the reaction to yesterday’s remark (“joke”) by Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi, who has characterized US President-elect Barack Obama as “youthful,...
View ArticleChildren as Enemies of the Environment? A Good Riposte
Joanna Benn ponders in the BBC web site if “baby decisions” are “adding to the world’s woes”. Yeah, right. Luckily among the general doom and gloom, there is at least one reader making a very important...
View ArticleAre Palestinian Lives Truly Worthless?
I am not saying that I disagree (and I don’t) with David Brooks’ definition of how to find a meaning in each Israeli-Palestinian act of terrorism or war (“The confidence war“, IHT, January 7, 2009)....
View ArticleWhy Israel Is Not The Palestinian Problem
Many thanks to the Editorial Board at the International Herald Tribune for publishing a letter of mine on the Jan 9, 2009 printed paper, under the headline “When governments fail” (a modified version...
View ArticleSpeaking Out About (Over-)Population
There is a sizable number of people concerned about overpopulation. They are being drawn together by a new initiative, the Global Population Speak Out, aiming at undermining “a taboo of sorts against...
View ArticleWhat To Do With Abusive Partners?
Target practice? Practical lessons for aspiring torturers? Food and fun for killer ants? The video was produced by DoSomething.org. … Continue reading →
View ArticleInspiration And Perspiration…
…under a different guise. Still, the concept is the same: for everything you do “Expect failure…but keep trying“ (from the Skeptics Society’s eSkeptic newsletter) … Continue reading →
View ArticleSimon Singh’s Unfortunate Mistake
I do not think Simon Singh‘s loss in the libel case brought by the British Chiropractic Association can be reversed. If Singh’s original sentence was the following (the article has been withdrawn) [The...
View ArticleThe Immoral Judgement behind Climate Activism
Judith Curry has a very concise summary of the latest Nature Climate Change shot-in-the-dark, called “Climate change and moral judgement” (by Ezra M. Markowitz and Azim F. Shariff, NCC, vol.2, April...
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