by Heather Hastie | Nov 27, 2017 | Tweets, USA, Women
Today’s homily was inspired by a tweet sent to me by Ann German. (See Human Rights Tweets below.) It led me to an article in Aeon called ‘How men continue to interrupt even the most powerful women’. The authors did a statistical analysis of how often...
by Heather Hastie | Nov 24, 2017 | Tweets
Any time you look at Twitter, there are multiple tweets about politics. Most of them take a strong partisan stance. Whenever I tweet about politics, I take a side too. It’s the same the world over. However, I notice that in the US there seems to be a much...
by Heather Hastie | Nov 22, 2017 | Tweets
Today’s homily was inspired by the quote below, which is from this tweet from Owen Barder. I am fed up with the way we are all being frogmarched towards driverless cars. What I really want is carless cities. I understand there are a lot of people who feel like...
by Heather Hastie | Nov 21, 2017 | Tweets, US Politics, Women
I wasn’t sure what to write for my homily today, then I switched on Fox News’s ‘The Five’. The first segment was about Hillary Clinton declaring that Bill Clinton wouldn’t have been elected originally if Fox News had been around at the...
by Heather Hastie | Nov 19, 2017 | Tweets
This tweets post should be about the All Blacks winning against Scotland. But I forgot to watch the game. Looking at the score line, I suspect that, as expected, the Scots put up a fantastic fight. The ongoing saga of Roy Moore being an a$$hole is, as someone who is a...
by Heather Hastie | Nov 17, 2017 | Tweets
There are two things dominating the tweets today when it comes to politics, and it’s easy to guess what they are. One is the ongoing saga of the Mueller investigation. The latest news is that papers relating to Trump real estate deals and Russia have been...
