1. Russell T Davies: Return of the (tea) Time Lord

Comment #155998 by StraightEdge on April 6, 2008 at 1:23 pm

Steve Zara:

The episode "Blink" was magnificent. I thought "Girl in the Fireplace" was perhaps the best Dr Who episode I have ever seen.

Both of those episodes were written by Steven Moffat who thankfully is writing an episode for this series as well. It sounds suitably scary from what I've heard! He also wrote that fantastic Children in Need special with Tennant and former Doctor Colin Baker crossing paths :)

2. Sentenced to death: Afghan who dared to read about women's rights

Comment #119036 by StraightEdge on January 31, 2008 at 9:26 am

Signed the petition and wrote to my MP (Denbighshire, UK). I'm not sure what good we can do from here but I really hope that some influential people in the West speak up about this.

3. Interview with Richard Dawkins

Comment #116539 by StraightEdge on January 26, 2008 at 5:51 pm

Well the Professor certainly was on form in this interview!

I know we all despair at the likes of the caller but I think it's good that Dawkins had the chance to refute one of the most commonly asked questions by those who haven't read about evolution.

That Tiktaalik site is great by the way. Cheers for that!

4. A Letter From Hell

Comment #115961 by StraightEdge on January 25, 2008 at 6:16 am

But remember guys - God loves us.

Seriously that is terrible. Shown to impressionable children that sort of stuff can really leave a mark. I know a friend who was really shaken up when she had it drilled into her by someone at school at an early age that anyone who wasn't a Christian was going to hell.

Truly disgusting.

5. Sudan demo over jailed UK teacher

Comment #92510 by StraightEdge on November 30, 2007 at 4:42 pm

The name Mohamed was actually suggested by a little boy in the class called...Mohamed.

The class then took a vote on all the suggested names and that one won. The kid has even said this publicly for the defence of the teacher.

Every time I hear more details about this story I get more and more angry.

When a 7 year old is displaying more logic and sanity than a country's government then you know there's something terribly wrong.

6. Getting Overheated

Comment #89403 by StraightEdge on November 20, 2007 at 3:14 pm

crazy old man wrote "Mr. Fry assumes that following the motive to believe in man-made climate change can only lead to positive results."

I think it was more 'the negative results of following it and being wrong far outway the negative results of ignoring it and being wrong'.

I think he makes a fine point and I remember Christopher Hitchens making exactly the same one in his Book-TV interview which can be found here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whCv00G12iI