My favourite type of science fiction are ones that use alien situations to explore a concept. One of my favourite short stories of all time is Harry Stephen Keeler's John Jones's dollar whi… (View Post)

He once sent a love letter to a girl who returned it with the spelling and grammar corrected. An experience like that might help explain if not excuse his chippiness. (View Post)

I went to a minor public school full of the children of well off farmers. The school emptied during the Countryside Alliance March except for me and a handful of other lefty townies. The day after, s… (View Post)

Oh come on. There's plenty of ministers (according to political persuasion) that we think are terrible in their role or delivering misguided policies. That's the nature of politics. They�… (View Post)

How about whipping up anti vax sentiments in Samoa? Or continuing to peddle the MMR jab lies. I actually think that RFK makes a lot of good points about US public health which is in a shocking state … (View Post)