More random links
Here is another link from Jared Diamond, to follow up the last one that Susan and Andrew debunked so thoroughly. This one is one race and the biology of it, and I quite like it.
This is an interesting piece about how a number of media outlets determinedly set about blaming fictional Islamic terrorists for the Norwegian attacks, building up a fake threat based on nothing, until they discovered it was, actually, a home grown nutjob. At which point, as a note, a lot of newspapers stopped talking 'terror attack' and started talking 'murder'. Because crazy Christians aren't terrorists. They are just murderers.
Here is Russell Brand (yes, him!) writing about Amy Winehouse and I think it's the best article on the subject I've read so far.
And finally, in more cheerful news, Go see a lot of lovely pictures of people getting married in New York after the state finally legalized gay marriage. I actually got a bit misty eyed at this. I think it's the elderly people getting married after 50+ years together which got me. It's disturbingly heart warming stuff.
This is an interesting piece about how a number of media outlets determinedly set about blaming fictional Islamic terrorists for the Norwegian attacks, building up a fake threat based on nothing, until they discovered it was, actually, a home grown nutjob. At which point, as a note, a lot of newspapers stopped talking 'terror attack' and started talking 'murder'. Because crazy Christians aren't terrorists. They are just murderers.
Here is Russell Brand (yes, him!) writing about Amy Winehouse and I think it's the best article on the subject I've read so far.
And finally, in more cheerful news, Go see a lot of lovely pictures of people getting married in New York after the state finally legalized gay marriage. I actually got a bit misty eyed at this. I think it's the elderly people getting married after 50+ years together which got me. It's disturbingly heart warming stuff.