Monthly Archives: August 2008

High

Following the recent mountaineering deaths on K2 I’ve been thinking about the way we react, or we’re supposed to react, to this kind of disaster. A bunch of people push their bodies to the limit to achieve a sort of … Continue reading

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Head and neck should be opened

This image comes from a site called Face Analyst: A New Approach to the Old Puzzle. It’s written in what reads like an unholy marriage between machine translation and psychobabble. The text beside it goes like this: The classical type … Continue reading

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Bare naked homophobia

Jesus’ General is one of my favourite blogs pretty much all the time, but his latest post is particularly wonderful. Read it here. The illustration comes from it.

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I love you I hate you

I was talking to a friend last night about what it might mean to have an inferiority complex. In one sense the term’s an oxymoron. The moment you understand your inferiority is a complex rather than a simple fact about … Continue reading

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