Cav's Place

Can anyone tell me why do governments want to get inside bedrooms? Old laws that forbid oral or anal sex may occasionally be quoted as jokes, despite their very existence being a sad fact even when said existence is only caused by people having forgotten to repeal them, but new laws that interfere in people’s […]

I was recently reading a report saying that suicide rathes for 10-to-24-year-olds have increased by 8% between 2003 and 2004, making it the largest single-year increase in 15 years. I don’t know why are they only now releasing data that should have been available in 2005 at the latest, but I’m finding something else even […]

This is interesting enough to make my mind make connections. Fair trade condoms… I’ve been asking people for a long time, especially when they complained about their income, if they’d pay more for the products of a company that would pay all of it’s employees fairly. Then, after the nearly inevitable “no”, I’d ask what […]

I’ve been recently asked by somebody I hadn’t spoken to in quite some time if anybody managed to convince me to face this stupid world we live in since she last heard from me. I replied by asking how could anybody convince me to do something I’m not capable of, yet now I wonder if […]

Somebody asked me a few days ago how much can an idealist survive in this world before becoming a disillusioned cynic. I didn’t answer the actual question, saying only that disillusioned cynics can also be useful sometimes. I couldn’t think of a generally applicable answer anyway, but I can answer for myself, and that answer […]