John Milbank VS Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Nobody Wins
John Milbank of the Radical Orthodoxy movement has written a new public article. After publishing an anti-feminist tirade (requesting that we set up a new feminism biased in favour of men) on The...
View ArticleJohn Milbank VS Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Nobody Wins (Re-Edited)
John Milbank was a theology lecturer I came into contact during my degree. His Radical Orthodoxy movement apparently had a major following in academic circles, though there appeared to be very little...
View ArticleZone Alarm Scareware
Naturally when I first saw this message I was a little terrified. However, this isn't actually a virus alert. Several different people (see comments) dealing with customer services were given this...
View ArticleSacred Space...
Glastonbury abbey apologises after allowing Nicolas Cage to plug filmAh yes, I can see why they'd be upset about Nicolas Cage being allowed into their sacred space. :POk ok, so it's to plug a movie and...
View ArticleMaryam Namazie and Sharia
This might seem like a bit of a turnaround for me. I no longer think that Sharia courts in the UK are 'no big deal'. That said, I stick by my assertion that there is FAR more to fear from independent...
View ArticleWhen Does This Ever Happen?
"We now have a situation where people can walk into a bank or any other secure area wearing Mickey Mouse ears and remain unquestioned about it."The video starts with comments from Nicolas Sarkozy which...
View ArticleJohn Milbank says the Pope was right about atheists....
John Milbank first notes that Ed Milliband, the new Labour leader in the UK, is actually an atheist. Something he has actually kept rather quiet. (This is by contrast to the current Lib Dem leader Nick...
View ArticleArticle 7
I saw this awesome video a fair old while ago (before I saw Arj Barker in the awesome "Flight Of The Conchords"), but it was taken down pretty much everywhere all at once. Anywhere it seems to have...
View ArticleYahtzee Reviews Metroid Other M
Zero Punctuation doesn't like "Metroid: Other M". Admittedly he doesn't seem to like ANY Nintendo games anymore, but then again he's mostly pretty disinclined to actually admit to liking anything. It's...
View ArticleConsidering Judaism
I'm very pleased to see that this includes the awesome David Schneider, who I first saw in various projects of Armando Iannucci such as "The Saturday Night Armistice" and "I'm Alan Partridge". (Armando...
View ArticleFear And Horror - Movie Musings...
It's an odd thing that I've always thought that I didn't really like movies and I'm now happily contributing to an LJ community with a big focus on horror. Not only that but the main contributor has...
View ArticleFour "Masters Of Horror" Episodes
Okay, this sort of a follow up to my review of John Carpenter's episode: "Ciggerette Burns".In the Masters Of Horror series major horror directors are given a choice of hour-long scripts and the...
View ArticleEDL and Tea Party join forces.... They deserve each other. Ugh!
English Defence League forges links with America's Tea Party As the far-right group marches in Leicester, details are emerging of growing contacts with extremist US groups in a 'war on...
View ArticleDumbest Libertarian Quote Ever...
"The family should be left to resolve it on their own," Biondolillo said. "Or private enterprise - private companies can contact the family and say, 'We heard you were hitting your kids. Can you stop...
View ArticleNew Reviews: Winter's Bone, Mother, Mary and Max, I Am Love
Winter's Bone (2010)My goodness, it's been a long wait. I'd heard that the leading female protagonist was an awesome badass (but not in the "damsel in distress + a bit of kickboxing" way), that the...
View ArticleTwo Werner Herzog Movies: "The Bad Lieutenant" and "My Son My Son What Have...
Werner Herzog has released two films in the same year and I'm not sure which of the movies was made first. One is about a corrupt police officer while the other is about an insane murderer.The Bad...
View ArticleWant To Defect From The Catholic Church? Well You Can't!
Suspension of the Defection ProcessIn April of this year, the Catholic Church modified the Code of Canon Law to remove all references to the act of formal defection, the process used by those who wish...
View ArticleWell duh!
Apparently Syfy have realised that people would actually prefer to see more stories about Adama doing special missions and kicking Cylon butt!The decision to include Adama as a young child in the...
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