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Why? Why shouldn't schools do it? If it were up to some parents, you'll have kids either growing up to be sexually repressed screw-ups or they'll just learn nothing at all except what they hear from their friends and see in the media.

Like I said in that first post, I had tickets to see Sigur Ros tonight in Dublin but couldn't make it down. I passed them onto a couple of friends who haven't heard them before and now they're texting me about how amazing the gig was. I gave them the tickets for free but they're offering to...

This is the attitude I do not understand. Intelligent design has simply nothing to do with evolution. It has no place in a science class, either.

It's not necessarily because someone tells us so, intelligent design need not imply the Christian God is real, or that anyone's God is real for that matter. There are myriad stories of creation throughout history from many different cultures, suggesting intelligent design is a possibility is no...

Intelligent design is as valid an explanation for the origin of life as more "scientific" ideas, such as abiogenesis. Evolution describes a process which occurs over time. How the process started is open to speculation.

Maybe it's a severe food intolerance to something. Those obviously come and go when you've ingested something then gotten it out of your system.

I think Parachutes is great, the second album less so. X&Y just seems disgustingly over-produced to me and some of the songs a re-tread of the second album. It was like Coldplay's attempt at OK Computer (them being a watered down Radiohead) and, for me, it fell flat. If you're into...

It's pretty obvious that intelligent design and evolution are compatible. You don't need the Bible to tell you that. Evolution only describes how species adapt and change over time, it offers no explanation on how life originated on this planet. I honestly cannot fathom the problems there seem...

None of those acts are obscure, but you do have to look beyond the radio to find really good music these days. Coldplay's new album I was pretty disappointed with this year. Same with Oasis.

He has a song on Illinoise about John Wayne Gacy Jr.

Out of my list I'd say Sufjan Stevens, The Magic Numbers and Ray Lamontagne are possibly the easiest to listen to. Sufjan Stevens is interesting too because his album is actually about the state of Illinois. He also has one out about Michigan, his home state. He's attempting to write an album...

I'm sorry to hear about this man. We've had our disagreements since I've arrived but I genuinely offer you and your family best wishes and hope that your eventual treatment goes well, so you'll be back soon to give me loads.

The year is drawing to a close and I think now is a good time to begin considering the year's music in the form of the best albums. I'll provide my list, in no particular order (or the order I remember them), and I hope people follow suit. Maybe I can learn about a record I should be keeping...

On an individual basis it is hard to say. But on a societal basis, paedophiles are more dangerous to children. Psychotic mothers murdering their own children is tragic and horrible but in real terms it doesn't happen particularly often (gets a lot of attention when it does). Nor do psychotic...

The Russians used banned chemical weapons to "solve" (i.e. kill hostages and terrorists alike) the Moscow theatre hostage crisis a few years ago. I would never be one to extoll the moral virtues of Russia's offensive against the Chechens.

I'm not being condescending, that is simply a statement of fact. Saying "they settle where they can afford to" is a different way of making the same point. Would you deny there are immigrants and ethnic minorities who are part of the more affluent sections of French society? People in...

Some populations in Europe remain static or are actually going into a very gradual decline. You have to bear in mind that we are only now feeling the effects of some very fast medical advances meaning that our life expectancies have increased greatly in the past century or so. The populations...

Or no one is hiring them because they aren't necessarily qualified. They are coming from a poor nation as poor people and find that coming to France doesn't automatically rectify that situation. For me to deny that no racism goes on would be ludicrous, but again I go back to government policy...

I just wanted to clear up any suggestion that we can take apart criminal brains and fix them, re-condition people or find a crime gene or other such outlandish ideas which are conjured up by the idea of mentioning science as a solution.

I never said it was. Would never, ever claim it. The treatment of immigrants in my country utterly disgusts me. The attacks on immigrants carried out are despicable and the politicians in my country do not do enough to prevent them. Anyone who does claim Europe experiences no racism is...