The Hall of Fire

Has anyone seen Beforeigners? Norwegian noir. People from different time periods suddenly start to pop up in the middle of the bay, and modern day Norway has to work out how to integrate these time refugees into the 21st century. Also, to complicate things further, protagonists are mismatched pair s...

A sorrowful loss. She leaves a significant legacy.

That, and sent to foster families, some of whom did their ignorant best, but many of whom mistreated the children.

A horrible period of our history - and not that long ago.

Vale Archie Roach. A remarkable musician, songwriter, singer, story-teller and powerful national truth-teller, and respected elder of the Gunditjmara Bungjurong people. His name is synonymous with the fight for justice for the stolen generations, his fame beginning in 1990 with the release of 'Took ...

Voronwë, I don't know how you feel about this video being posted to HoF. If you think it's inappropriate, remove.

Scare-mongering and exaggeration, or embroidered summation?

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I really enjoy the Dorothy Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey series. Very well written, without plot holes and with all the clues scattered through the book that by the end you have the satisfaction of having deduced the villain.

Son came over for dinner and talked us into watching The Big Lubowsky, which I had never seen before.

Ridiculously stupid premise, really, really funny.

I have The Assignment on the recommended reading list for our program delivery volunteers; it compels upstander action, which is what our program is all about.

Tennessee judges have dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Jewish couple who were told by a state-funded agency that they would not place a child in a non-Christian home. In 2020, Tennessee passed a law allowing adoption agencies to disqualify prospective parents based on their religious faith, as well as...

....That said, I don't think rational and scientific thought should be claimed or rejected by any religion. Rational and scientific thought are available for all and should be considered available for all. From my reading, which admittedly has not been extensive, this particular "satanist"...

I don't know enough about the USA to guess how it's going to go, but what are your opinions? Will the "Satanists" be able to use this decision to create after school Satanist clubs to promote rationalist and scientific thought?

The promotional vid made me chuckle.

The Assignment by Liza Wiemer is a fictionalised exploration a real incident of teacher who set an assignment for students to argue for the Final Solution. It's illuminating. I wouldn't support a repetition of the teaching experiment.

Oh, absolutely! Power imbalances are a huge factor in a number of ways: majority vs minority, hierarchical factors; wealth & influence - these are self-evident. There's also the less recognised fact that being a perpetrator - the willingness to break the accepted civil norm of refraining from do...

Marc and I are watching 'Servant of the People', Volodymyr Zelensky's satirical comedy series that ultimately led to him becoming the real life President of Ukraine. The satire is very clever, spotlighting corruption, cronyism and nepotism in a way that makes you laugh and squirm at the same time. T...

I'm reading the Agatha Raisin books ... cosy mysteries featuring a former PR woman who has retired to a picture-perfect cottage in the Cotswolds and finds that neither retirement nor Cotswolds village life are all they're cracked up to be. She's terribly flawed, rude, cantankerous, a lying liar who ...

IMO, fully comprehending that tribalism is an evolutionary trait of our species is essential to overcoming the reflex to 'other' those who are 'not my people'. 'Normal' means 'my tribe'; and if you're not of my tribe, that makes you suspect. Human beings learn and absorb the characteristics that def...

This is not about "life", this is about enforcing gender roles in the service of theocracy. I've observed in recent years and can say without hyperbole that, in my view, the Left have no understanding of the Right; the above is a prime example. I don't doubt that this is what it looks lik...

A position with minority support imposed on the entire population against their will be a rapist appointed to the court by a president who attempted a violent coup That isn't accurate. It was actually Roe that imposed a position on the entire population. This returns the question to the states, whe...

Same response, Frelga.

According to tonight's news broadcast, gun sales across the USA rise significantly immediately following a mass shooting. I find that horrifying and dystopian.