It's interesting to see most Europeans siding with Barack Obama and thinking John McCain to be a bad alternative ( Read more... )

A young guy decided to end his days in a big-bang and took ten lives as he went. Another school-shooting in Finland that is (it is just less than a year another guy killed eight in his school ( Read more... )

There will be a game of Dueling Wizards in the Barrow Downs starting on June the 1st.

So if you're reding this and have not yet joined the game you have a couple of days to do it...

The crowd (27 players) looks impressive at the moment but it could be even better if you joined.

I just heard my student was picked into Finnish two person team for the international Philosophy Olympiads for youth! There was a half a year's extensive training period where they (the ministry of education philosophy board) had picked something like ten best from an essay-contest that was held last autumn and she got through that ( Read more... )

Good to be on an unfamilyfriendly site ( Read more... )

Paul Greengrass' film "Bloody Sunday" was just shown on Finnish television ( Read more... )

My friend and colleague died last Saturday ( Read more... )

I saw Volo's entry and thought the subject should earn more entries ( Read more... )

We have been making a textbook on political philosophy this summer and that process has made me think and rethink a host of issues yet again. One thing I would like to share with you is the following.

Even the staunchest socialist will have to admit that most of the human history has economically worked under some kind of market-based ( Read more... )

I think this issue has been discussed a throng of times but I would still like to come back to it due to my recent experiences. Or to be true, Lommy's experiences...

In the last werewolf-game Lommy had written the word "damn" into one of her posts. The mod had edited it to "darn" and reminded her via PM that the BD is a family-friendly site after ( Read more... )