The expression “thinking outside the box” is one of the most ridiculous fad (common amongst idealist) I have ever heard and I uncontrollably cringe each time I hear it. Thinking outside the box is leading nowhere. Imagine you are lost in the middle of the Sahara with no water and no food, no amount of thinking outside the box if going to help you…
Great discovery and progress were made because people were thinking within the box. They knew the box very well and that’s why they could come up with …

Since the papal comment about condoms and the HIV epidemic, there has been a flurry of articles written in support of the pontifical nonsense. These often call upon a comparison between “sinful” Thailand, awash with HIV and condoms, and the “holly” Philippines where there is not such thing as HIV or condoms (a bit like in Iran).
Does this sound slightly over the top? Not really. Kathleen Gilbert writing for the LifesSiteNews website quotes Yolly Eileen Gamutam, head of the Asia’s Catholic Association of Doctors, Nurses and Health Professionals (ACIM-Asia) saying …

It has all the elements of your usual sex worker story, set in the busy alleyway of the red light district of an exotic town, a low-rise stage on which naked, sexy and sweaty bodies gyrate in the night on the sound of thumping music, a crowd of patrons eyeing at the right number, a dancer who believes that “the sex industry is like any other service-oriented profession”; but this time, the dancers are male and the patrons are female.
In a rare report for The Bangkok Post, Yvonne Bohwongprasert unveils …

On 21st of February, the 2nd Chiang Mai Gay Pride Parade had to be called off following a stand-off with a small group of “Rak Chiang Mai 51″ red-shirted pro-Thaksin demonstrators who objected to the event taking place in a public space.
According to The Nation, “The protesters launched verbal attacks through a megaphone saying the event tarnished the city’s reputation.” The previous day, “a leading member of the “Rak Chiang Mai 51″ group said local residents disagreed with the parade as it was against the old city’s culture and could …

It is revelation’s time for AIDS Inc. Two months ago Kevin de Cock, the epidemiologist heading the HIV-AIDS program with the World Health Organisation, briefly acknowledged, before recanting, that the threat of an heterosexual AIDS pandemic outside of Africa had disappeared and this month at the XVII International AIDS conference in Mexico, it was finally recognised that “a giant wave of infections moved like a tsunami through communities of gay men in Asia, Africa and Latin America” as The Sidney Morning Herald puts it.
“Men who have sex with men are …