It’s been nippier than a plane full of japs out lately, consequently I’ve come down with a frightful head-cold and quarantined myself indoors. Hence the upswing in blog activity, a general feeling of “bleargh-ness”, and a crash in productivity levels. Fingers crossed the lurgy mist clears before next week, but in the mean time I’ve [...]
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Should Tweeters be executed?
If it ever turns out that there genuinely is a secret global elite controlling society, then at present my money is on it being the Twitterati. Looks at the facts people! Already we’ve silenced the Daily Mail, and more importantly a fellow who dared criticise Stephen Fry; now we’ve forced the BBC to back down! [...]
Posted by Chris Nash on December 17, 2009
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/should-tweeters-be-executed/
Business as “Normal”?
As a follower of Pink News on Twitter, I came across this story earlier in the week. I was today reminded of it by a kiwi comrade who found it reported in a regional paper. It concerns a US teen denied a job or job interview at McDonald’s on the basis of her transgender identity. [...]
Posted by Chris Nash on December 13, 2009
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/business-as-normal/
Of Minarets and Men
I wasn’t going to wade into this whole Swiss ban on minarets thing. Any issue where one conflates race, religion, democracy, and (worst of all) referenda is going to be trouble. But then a Bulgarian mate invited me to a Facebook group about it (and as we all know Facebook groups are the epitome of social [...]
Posted by Chris Nash on December 8, 2009
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/of-minarets-and-men/
Time to scrap the United Nations?
News on the upcoming “Durban II” UN talks on racism, due to be held in Geneva, suggests that a number of nations including the US and Canada may be thinking of boycotting it. The reason given is due to fears that the event will be hijaked by those nations who wish to promote an anti-israel [...]
Posted by Chris Nash on April 20, 2009
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/time-to-scrap-the-united-nations/


