I believe in Darwinism and evolution and biology. I believe in atheism. I believe you get one shot; the rest is dust. That’s my creed, and I’ve decided not to even bother defending it any more.

A lot of ideas have been simmering away under this one.

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From Rebecca, news of Geoffrey Chaucer's blog. As she says, one can almost read this, and right fun it is too. If life weren't quite so filled, I would linger longer, for sure.

Caused by a break. To my wrist. My right one, my writing one. It has been patched up and is supposed to be on the mend, but it may be some time before I can write at length. I can type, but it is not easy and is pretty tiring. And there is so much I wanted to say. You might almost say I have been br...

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How long is it reasonable to wait for a reply from a journalist? In an email age, and when an inky wretch has a corporate @ddress, is half a week long enough?

Three days ago I wrote to one such, who had taken up the pen against Terminator technology (new readers, see here and here.) She had said:

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BBC News is saying that a new UK report is calling for all new farming practices to be assessed for their environmental impact. At the moment, only genetic modification requires this sort of assessment. [Reuters UK] has a slightly different perspective.

I haven’t read the report, obviously, but...

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