Das Phaedrus – Ditch
Space out
What does it feel like to fly over Planet Earth?
Left of liberal
Must be that time of the year again. Speaking at Drinking Liberally Dunedin this Thursday 1 July.
Beyond the sea: New Zealand’s ports at risk?
The following article on New Zealand ports and maritime issues was originally published in Foreign Control Watchdog issue 123 (May 2010), the magazine of CAFCA, and is available online at their site. I thought I’d add it here as well. Continue reading
Broke, Anxious or Seriously flush
The following article appeared in the Otago Daily Times, on Wednesday 3 February 2010, in response to an article by Dr Mathew Zacharias entitled Patients’ rights trampled in drive for equality and ongoing talk about user pays models at the Dunedin Public Hospital. Continue reading
Man makes religion; it does not make man
Published Otago Daily Times, 30 October 2009
In a Faith and Reason column, published in the past few months in the Otago Daily Times, the writer – a pastor – started his discourse on religion by quoting Karl Marx as saying “Religion is the opiate of the people”.
The problem is this quote is, strictly speaking, not factual. Continue reading
BlueShift
Book club
What I have been reading in 2009 >>>
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Science and Capitalism
Terence Kealey falls out of love with market myths at New Scientist and is descended upon by hordes of screaming libertarians (AKA self justifying plutocrats)