Posts Tagged ‘hypocrisy’

Thursday Night Gallimaufry

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

And once again, we have my quick opinions on a variety of things I’ve run into in the last little while.

I am fascinated with the mystery of what WalMart might be doing in their giant, mysterious data center. I’m guess that it might be related to “lowering prices every day”, but doing so by means [...]

Hypocrisy on parade

Friday, April 18th, 2008

There’s an evil tableau for you: the callous torturer stands up with blood on his hands and a lie in his teeth, while the priest draped in gilt reassures him of his righteousness. How often has that scene played out in history, I wonder?
You know, I wouldn’t change a word in what Paul Myers says [...]

Hypocrisy, cynicism, and (of course) religion.

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Here’s an example of the difference between someone with an optimistic outlook, and a cynic like me.
It’s pretty easy to imagine someone reading this news story:
Vatican recants with a statue of Galileo
Four hundred years after it put Galileo on trial for heresy the Vatican is to complete its rehabilitation of the great scientist by erecting [...]