Thinking that gay people should be excluded from schools, regiments, doctor's surgeries and male locker rooms wasn't particularly extremist when I was born but it most certainly is now. (View Post)

This was all so much easier when Christianity was the basis of our belief systems. Consciousness is the ability to believe or reject Jesus Christ. Therefore a dog is not conscious nor is AI. (View Post)

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)