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By Kim on April 14, 2010
There’s been a bit of discussion on tigtog’s thread about an apparently co-ordinated call by Christopher Hitchens and others, supported by Richard Dawkins for the Pope to face criminal indictment over the clerical child abuse scandal rocking the Catholic Church. [...]
Posted in Crime, Religion | Tagged atheism, atheists, Catholic Church, Catholicism, child abuse, christopher hitchens, clerics, crimes, international law, Pope Benedict, priests, Religion, Richard Dawkins, scandal, skepticlawyer, Vatican |
By Guest Poster on January 15, 2010
Cross-posted from Skepticlawyer. Today my daughter was playing with her pink superball while my son was asleep (it’s small, so she’s only allowed to get it out while he’s sleeping). I heard her mutter to her toys while brandishing the [...]
Posted in Life, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Andrew Peacock, Bob Hawke, childhood, childhood memories, Gough Whitlam, History, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Kevin Rudd, Mark Bahnisch, memories, Politics, skepticlawyer, Sociology |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 20, 2009
One of the most interesting teaching assignments I’ve had for a while is tutoring in a course in New Communications Technologies offered through the School of Humanities at Griffith. Some of the class discussions we’ve had so far this semester [...]
Posted in Blogging, Culture, Language, Life, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged cultural studies, dedifferentiation, digital natives, distributed cognition, employers, facebook, Facebook privacy, figurational sociology, Griffith University, historical sociology, human rights, informalisation, Law, Legal Eagle, Melissa Gregg, modernity, New communications technologies, New Communications Technology, Norbert Elias, personality, privacy, recruitment, School of Humanities, self, skepticlawyer, social media, Sociology, subjectivity, Sydney University, web 2.0, workplace rights |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 8, 2009
Apparently it’s now the question on everyone’s lips – apropos of the Keith Windschuttle Quadrant hoax. “Sharon Gould” was the pseudonym used by a hoaxer who submitted an egregious article embodying “outrageous propositions” about GM research and splicing human genes [...]
Posted in Blogging, Ethics, Media, Politics, Science | Tagged Alan Sokal, Blogging, blogosphere, Crikey, Don Arthur, hoax, Jason Soon, Kath Wilson, Katherine Wilson, keith windschuttle, margaret simons, Media, melaleuca, Quadrant, Science, sharon gould, skepticlawyer, Troppo
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