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Entries from February 17th, 2007

What’s Wrong with Whaling?

February 17th, 2007 3 Comments

With governments refusing to help ships that engage in it and ‘peace’ activists apparently willing to ram ships to prevent it, one assumes that whaling is a grave moral evil. It is, apparently, obviously so. Unfortunately, I fail to see why. How is killing a whale any different from fishing for marlin or shark or […]

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Dixie Chicks, Free Speech and the Flat Earth Society

February 13th, 2007 Comments Off on Dixie Chicks, Free Speech and the Flat Earth Society

One irritating feature of the contemporary media is the credence they give to the views of celebrities. There is often a kind of unwritten assumption that because a person is a good actor or singer, his or her views on politics, morality and ethics somehow carry more weight.Case in point is the enthusiastic reporting of […]

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Key Savage?

February 13th, 2007 Comments Off on Key Savage?

From this morning’s ODT, a letter to the editor from Paul Tulloch of Roslyn: “I was visiting a family of 23 in a small south Dunedin state house last Saturday, a family whose members had lived there since 1953. As I arrived at the door, I heard the sound of dull thuds against the wall […]

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Argh! Computers!!! (Apologies)

February 13th, 2007 Comments Off on Argh! Computers!!! (Apologies)

We have suffered serious computer problems so apologies for the lack of posts. Things are almost sorted now….

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