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The NRA Bait and Switch (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 04:28:32 +0000

Since the horrific killings of Eli Clayton (21) and Taylor Robertson (27) (pictured left) at a gamer tournament in Florida, the media is full of stories about the problem with video games. We’re being led to believe that it’s gamer culture that’s the issue here. That, apparently, is what led to 24-year-old David Katz opening […]

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Catching Up Again! (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 04:59:42 +0000

Hello everybody. I’m still in apology mode I’m afraid. My new chair isn’t here yet, though I’m expecting it some time next week. It can’t come soon enough! The pain is getting worse with each passing day, and it’s getting harder and harder to get through those days. So a few tweets and other items […]

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Heather’s Homily – Interrupting Women (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 01:24:13 +0000

Today’s homily was inspired by a tweet sent to me by Ann German. (See Human Rights Tweets below.) It led me to an article in Aeon called ‘How men continue to interrupt even the most powerful women‘. The authors did a statistical analysis of how often the female justices on the US Supreme Court were […]

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5 Nov: Daily Homily and Tweets

Heather Hastie — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 03:28:30 +0000

The All Blacks New Zealand has had five big wins in the sporting arena in the last 24 hours, so that’s what a large proportion of the tweets in this country are about. The biggest was the All Blacks vs the Barbarians (basically All Blacks “B”) at Twickenham in London. The game started in the […]

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My Picks for Top Tweets: 24 September 2017

Heather Hastie — Sun, 24 Sep 2017 03:48:40 +0000

Well, the election results are in, and the Twitterverse is full of tweets in relation to it in New Zealand. Every trending topic is about the election except one (which is about a boxing match). (As an aside, what do you think of boxing? Is it a sport? I don’t think it is, and I […]

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My Picks for Top Tweets: 9 September 2017

Heather Hastie — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 05:30:33 +0000

I’ve finally done a “proper” post for the first time in a while: ‘Is Islam a Feminist Religion‘ So, there’s not much time left today for tweets. It was after 3.30 pm before the post was done, and by then I was badly in need of some lunch! I hadn’t had any brekkie either, so […]

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My Picks for Top Tweets: 30 August 2017

Heather Hastie — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 02:57:41 +0000

Tweets of the ongoing crisis in Texas following Hurricane Harvey is still, of course, the main thing on Twitter today. The Washington Post is so far confirming sixteen deaths as a result of the storm. One is a police officer (see below). I suspect we haven’t seen the worst of it yet. I was living […]

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My Picks for Top Tweets: 17 August 2017

Heather Hastie — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 01:57:35 +0000

Day 12 of top tweets. There’s another new category today: “Other Apes”. By “Other” I mean, of course, not humans. The inaugural entry (though it’s not the first ape tweet – that was here) is a baby Hanuman Langur, which I’ve never heard of before. There are more pictures and video if you click through […]

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