No, no and again no, you pricks!

My mother's hospital ward is a rant for another time...

Good grief. Can nobody stop that boy?

I clean forgot to watch the race yesterday! D'oh.

I'm thoroughly sick of the Falklands. And sick of the UK propaganda machine that has all the media outlets describing it as the anniversary of their "liberation". Not that I'm on Argentina's side in any aspect but the basic geographical-proximity logic... but it's just "blah blah, colonial power, we're so tough".

Because I was born while it was going on, relatives refer to the Falklands conflict as "my war". I think this is most unfair. It's not as though I was entirely the antichrist. Not literally.

The Church is committed to the protection of children.

Yeah, right. They're fanatical about protecting unborn ones from being 'murdered', but once they're popped out, seems to me they can go hang for all the church cares.

Disabled children bullying claims

As seen in my user-info, my views do not represent those of the BBC, as will become obvious when I say that I agree with all the points quoted in this story. In particular, and maybe the report itself mentions this (I'll try to find the time to read or skim it), the BBC cannot cannot cannot report impartially on itself. You can see it over and over - recent example being the licence fee, prominent example being Hutton. No doubt it makes a better effort at this than some other channels, but its coverage has—well, an innate pro-BBC bias.

Brilliant, Mary Jane! (Whatta birdbrain.)

Baby Felicitas!

Call for 'post-9/11′ RE teaching

Quite agree. Our RE lessons were rubbish - divorced from reality. That is, I firmly hold that all religion is entirely divorced from reality (most of them seem to be proud of the fact), but our lessons just went over the very basics - this is a mosque, draw this plan of a gurdwara for homework - and didn't explain much of anything underlying.

They didn't explain what religion is for, which I didn't understand at all, being brought up unbrainwashed in at least that regard. (And all right, I still don't understand that question.) Anyway - covering ways in which religion is not always a force for good isn't just a good idea; it should be mandatory.

On the topic of understanding that aforementioned point, I have still to read The God Delusion; my reading list is horribly backed up foul simile deleted, with a stack of Ashers yet to inhale. I am currently discovering the wonders of gabbleducks with dark, ensanguined glee, although scoles and hooders are probably my favourites on this particular savage alien world. (Well, after Jain nanomycelia and, naturally, all possible iterations of Dragon, but those characters aren't natives.)