I see that, in the comments under Tom Doherty’s recent message on Tor.com, there is one from John C Wright, in which he makes the following claim:

I am not unrepentantly homophobic. I am nothing of the kind. It is a lie.

I follow the Catholic teaching on same sex attraction and how ( Read more... )

So, the most recent chapter of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality went up, and it has this bit in it:

Harry was wiping sweat from his forehead. “Because things have changed between then and now! Listen, Draco, three hundred years ago you could find great scientists, as great as Salazar in their own way, who would ( Read more... )

Arg, no thanks to John Gruber, I spent some time this afternoon perusing Eric Raymond’s blog. No, he hasn’t gotten any better.

I was amused to see a few election-related posts - all dating from that brief period around the end of August and early September when McCain’s numbers looked good - gloating about how Obama’s campaign is doomed, doomed. ( Read more... )

Wow, turns out Orson Scott Card is not one, but two kinds of bigot. I already knew about his anti-gay bigotry - I’d long ago read his Sunstone essay “The Hypocrites of Homosexuality” in which he advocates retaining laws against homosexual behavior and enforcing them selectively so as to intimidate gays back into the closet.

Now anti-Semitism! In ( Read more... )