Chris Tumbled Upon

Yet another addition to the family of weblog, twitter and flickr

I’d vote for him ahead of any Republican candidates…

Address Is Approximate (by The Theory)

Movember sparks international incident (by PokeHQ)

Quantum Levitation (by ASTCvideos)

No sensible person is “pro abortion” - the question is really who makes the ultimate decision: the woman (in consultation with her doctors) or the legislature. Any attempt to frustrate or remove her access to an abortion within those 24 weeks appears to me to simply have the whiff of misplaced paternalism; it implies that the woman does not know her own mind.

And, by implication, any decision to seek advice or counselling is also for the woman alone; it is illiberal for a woman to be obliged or expected to take advice or receive counselling, should she elect to terminate her pregnancy; again, any such obligation or expectation implies that the woman does not know her own mind.

Jack of Kent: Some general thoughts on abortion

Nature by Numbers

The European Union’s Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2010 states that in 2009 there were “294 failed, foiled, or successfully executed attacks” in six European countries. As for who’s responsible, forget Islamists. The overwhelming majority of the attacks- 237 of 294 - were carried out by separatist groups, such as the Basque ETA. A further 40 terrorists schemes were pinned on leftist and/or anarchist terrorists. Rightists were responsible for four attacks. Single-issue groups were behind two attacks, while responsibility for a further 10 was not clear. Islamists? They were behind a grand total of one attack. Yes, one. Out of 294 attacks. In a population of half a billion people. To put that in perspective, the same number of attacks was committed by the Comité d’Action Viticole, a French group that wants to stop the importation of foreign wine. Remember That “Eurabian Civil War”?