Andy on February 12th, 2009

Over the last few days it has become apparent how terrible the tragedy that began over the last weekend in Victoria really was. We were initially shocked on Sunday night when it looked as if around 50 people had died,…

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Andy on January 27th, 2009

Happy 2009! Things are looking up, what with Barrack Obama’s inclusion of ‘non-believers’ in his inauguration speech and his review of funding for family planning projects around the world. Rational government may have finally returned to the U.S.

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Andy on December 12th, 2008

I just finished watching the excellent extended interview by Richard Dawkins of Derren Brown, the self-professed skeptic and psychological illusionist (watch it here) and he made several very good points at the end of the interview when he was explaining…

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Andy on November 5th, 2008

What a wonderful, inspiring speech from Barrack Obama. I thought for an excited  moment that he was going to include atheists in his list of marginalised people. Gays, Afro-Americans, Hispanics were all mentioned and I was hanging out for the ‘A’…

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Andy on October 23rd, 2008

I give christians a hard time on this blog and most deserve it - especially those two idiots that disturbed last Saturday’s peaceful morning working in the garden.  They were Mormons of course (or believers in the ‘prophet Moroni’ -…

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