by Heather Hastie | Jan 17, 2018 | Human Rights, Tweets
One of the tweets I posted here recently was one of my own. It was a Big Think video entitled ‘The Chronology of Crazy in the USA’ featuring Kurt Anderson. I often wonder about the various ways the minds of different people work. I’m not going to...
by Heather Hastie | Jan 7, 2018 | Tweets
Of course, the big news on Twitter is the new Michael Wolff book, Fire and Fury. There are tweets about every aspect of the book, the release of which was brought forward to 5 January when President Trump’s lawyers sent a “cease and desist” letter to...
by Heather Hastie | Jan 4, 2018 | Middle East, Tweets
Once again the tweets of the US president expose how unfit he is for high public office. His “mine is bigger than yours” tweet (see below) to Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, is schoolyard stuff. The thing is, there were actually tweets President...
by Heather Hastie | Dec 31, 2017 | Human Rights, Middle East, Religion, Tweets, Women
Many of you who are good enough to subscribe to Heather’s Homilies only found me because you were already followers of Jerry Coyne’s site: ‘Why Evolution is True’ (WEIT). Therefore, you you probably read his post on 28 December: ‘A real...
by Heather Hastie | Dec 27, 2017 | Asia, Russia, Tweets
I prepared the tweets for this post yesterday, but then the efforts of the previous few days overcame me. Translation: I spent the remaining three hours of the afternoon asleep! I haven’t looked at Twitter yet today, so some of the tweets may be out of date....