From the daily archives:

Saturday, September 5, 2009

A minority who make women look very visible

September 5, 2009

There are very few blogs in my feed reader where I know for sure that the author is gay or lesbian. Nor am I asking anyone to come out. Blogs have multiple, unpredictable and unknown audiences and, say, a priest or scholar who is happy to be out to friends and colleagues may not wish [...]

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Phone it in: I love quotes like this

September 5, 2009

Even if they may well be apocryphal. But one quotation attributed to Alexander Graham Bell that I came across recently is this:

I do not think I am exaggerating the possibilities of this invention when I tell you it is my firm belief that one day there will be a telephone in every major town in [...]

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There’s no f in conspiracy

September 5, 2009

I seem to have come across a fair few conspiracy theories lately.
I just feel the title of this post is accurate, and even more so when said quickly.

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