by Heather Hastie | Feb 28, 2017 | Australia, Middle East, Religion
Back in August last year, I wrote the post ‘More Delusions About Religion’. It was my response to a Letter to the Editor that a Chris McColl had sent to his local newspaper in Australia. I saw the letter because George Takei posted it on his Facebook page....
by Heather Hastie | Feb 21, 2017 | New Zealand
A new time lapse film by Martin Heck of Timestorm Films came out this week. ‘New Zealand Ascending’ It took sixteen weeks of production time and 185,000 photos to make a film of less than seven minutes. The result, as always is beautiful. New’s...
by Heather Hastie | Feb 15, 2017 | Middle East, Religion, US Politics
Donald Trump spent his election campaign making statements like this one from a 7 December 2015 press release. Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out...
by Heather Hastie | Feb 15, 2017 | Simon's Cat
Valentine’s Day was yesterday in New Zealand, and I was going to post these then, but I was having a Bad Day so it didn’t get done. I was having a Bad Day before I even remembered it was Valentine’s Day, but that made it worse of course. I’m...
by Heather Hastie | Feb 13, 2017 | Australia, Religion
The Australian government set up the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in 2013. There were ongoing revelations in the media of institutions moving alleged abusers moving from school to school rather than reporting them to the police....