Below is the completed letter that I sent to the Advocate. After much agonising on what to cut out and what to leave in I settled on something that I hope is not too dry or wordy.
I write in response to Name withheld (NW) and Amee Glass (AG) the Advocate Jan. [...]
I have begun to hear this term thrown around in discussions chiefly from apologists that seem to want to use it pejoratively.
Let’s break it down.
Neo= New
Atheists= those that do not accept the existence of divine beings.
Chiefly this moniker is aimed at the Four Horsemen -Dawkins, Dennet, Hitchen’s and Harris but there are others.
So [...]
Could be the title of a bond-esque spy thriller or perhaps another Austin Powers movie. A honey trap is a
trap using good-looking person as bait: a situation in which somebody is led to reveal information or do something wrong by a good-looking person, usually a young woman, selected for this purpose [source]
Normally the fare [...]
Could be the title of a bond-esque spy thriller or perhaps another Austin Powers movie. A honey trap is a
trap using good-looking person as bait: a situation in which somebody is led to reveal information or do something wrong by a good-looking person, usually a young woman, selected for this purpose [source]
Normally the fare [...]
I have been reading The Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen. Mr Keen’s not a big fan of the Web 2.0 environment, bloggers, the blurring of the line between audience and author, he posits that it has dire economic and cultural consequences.
He’s understandably not a fan of wikipedia and the way in which it [...]