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The Difficulty Of Being Ex

I’ve been reading with some bemusement the coverage of a new book by Alan Chambers, the president of an organisation called Exodus International.  This is one of those ‘ex-gay’ groups which helps people ‘leave homosexuality’.  Bemusement not, strictly, at the coverage, but at some of the content cited.  Chambers apparently doesn’t think that he’s ex-gay [...]

Warning: Screaming Wingnut Opinions Ahead!

The great state of Oklahoma (where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain) has somewhat unfortunately elected a raving bigot called Sally Kern as a Congressperson more than once.  She’s well known notorious for describing homosexuality as a greater threat to America than terrorism or Islam (which by the way she does nevertheless think are [...]

Is It Fiction? Or Is It “A Novel”

It’s odd how one person’s eye and mind can pick up on particular things which pass another’s by.
It was The Mrs who drew my attention to the current craze for labelling novels as novels.  You know the kind of thing; The Nervousness of Clarissa Poole - A Novel (I just made that up, but now [...]

48 Hour Geek Explosion

Back in June, The Mrs and I attended Blizzard’s Worldwide Invitational event in Paris.  (Blizzard, for those who didn’t read my old blog, is the maker of World of Warcraft, a computer game which has ever-so-slightly taken over our lives from time to time over the last three and a half years).  The Invitational is [...]