The anthropic principle doesn’t really have anything to do with the question of why something rather than nothing. It is about why ‘this’ something, why the specific conditions that eventually allowed the evolution of ‘us’? A totally different question.

Embargo Embargo is a song by Black Francis, isn’t it? Bosso nova beat.

I bridle at the mere thought of being saddled with this news. please rein it in a bit.

First sane response to Disney assimilated franchise hype I have seen. Here’ have a free wookie!

Feminist have repeatedly and very rightly pointed out that rape victims are often verballed and treated like the culprits in court cases? How is this different? Hynde did NOT say women are somehow to blame for their own rape. She made no generalised claim of any kind. She related her own understanding of her own…

So it is cool and somehow feminist for a man to reduce a powerful female artist’s account of her own experience to a few lines he finds unpalatable and then hound her over them? As far I can see, a male journalist has sought to make a rape victim accept blame for something like the very existence of rape culture and…

Something was troubling me after I left this page. I just realised that I had an instinctive moral reaction to the sight of a small child being exploited for beard-politics. #Istandwithbeardbaby

Never trust a man with over 3o facial hairs!