Ben Elton is perhaps better known in Commonwealth countries as a TV comedian, but he writes a fine line of satire which frequently swerves into the SciFi realm and is almost always a form of social commentary.

Blind Faith is an interesting posit on where the current obsession with social media, coupled with government surveillance and the slide away from science to religion could do to a slightly futuristic society.

Well worth a read, and if you enjoy that, you may enjoy some of his older works, such as Stark, This Other Eden, or some of his more recent stuff (there's dozens).

Woosh!

I was actually referring to the latin where dexter means right-handed and sinister means left-handed.

but your explanation is cute too.

Where's NYCL when you need him, I'd really like to see his take on the legitimacy of his claims from a legal stand point (rather than just a common sense, man up point of view).

I wonder if anyone has ever told this guy that women watch porn too. On second thoughts, it might break his little brain even further.

+1, would read this fantasy author again, trips dangerously close to triggering Poe's Law on occasions but is so over the top as to dispel any reasonable belief that this is serious.

What's so sinister about writing left handed?

The McDonalds Hot Coffee lady wasn't just being dumb, she suffered third-degree burns in her pelvic region when she accidentally spilled hot coffee in her lap and was hospitalized for eight days while she underwent skin grafting, followed by two years of medical treatment.

McDonalds had previously received numerous complaints from people that the coffee was being served at excessively hot temperatures and chose to ignore that advice. They consistently served coffee at higher than recommended temperatures and temperatures that were higher than were the industry norm.

While this case is frequently cited as an example of frivolous litigation it was anything but. The plaintiff went to court only asking for her medical costs to be covered, it was the jury who decided on the large punitive damages.

What keyboard was he using where "a" is near "u", or "e" is near "k"?

Mentally ill and developmentally retarded (in the literal sense) can have diminished capacity, much like a minor.

Unfortunately that doesn't help us with the case in question as the guy has been certified as suffering from a mental illness (PTSD).

Steve - Coupling

You have to wonder why he doesn't suffer from loss of bone density, given he was raised since a small child within earth's gravity. Surely Krypton's gravity is irrelevant as he doesn't live there most of the time, he would have adapted to Earth's gravitational forces before he could walk.

I wonder if he's going to blame Apple for the fact that much of the kink.com content requires a subscription to view. You know, they twisted his arm by allowing his payment to be processed or something.

In Australia the way it largely works is the infringement is sent to the registered owner of the vehicle (assuming the driver hasn't been pulled over and handed the notice in person.), and if they were not driving at the time they can lodge a statutory declaration nominating another driver.

Rental companies get hit with this quite a bit.

Some infringements, such as speeding, can also cost you points from your licence, whereas other infringements like parking don't.

If they are rolling around on the ground, bigger may not necessarily mean taller, if could mean bulkier - Trayvon looks kinda skinny from the photo's I've seen, Zimmerman less so.

I know this was probably posted sarcastically, but it's a difficult path to walk. On one side you have rape-culture feminists saying "don't tell me how to dress, teach your sons not to rape" and on the other side you have the police and others trying to give advice on risk minimisation such as "don't dress like a slut".

I think the answer is somewhere in between.

A friend of mine recently blogged how she trained in martial arts, dresses conservatively if out at night and engages in other risk minimisation behaviours, but worries that while it makes her safer, it potentially just means the hypothetical attacker, if out on the prowl, may simply go for another, 'tastier' snack. She feels guilty that while she may be safer, she has made someone else less safe by comparison.

We definitely need to teach our children that 'no means no' and that they don't have the right to force themselves on an unwilling partner. But while that message is sinking in, we need to teach them to consider the risks in how they behave.

Children and adolescents are especially at risk because they still haven't formed the ability to assess risk and make judgements as to their own safety. In some ways it's easier to protect very young children than it is to protect teens, who will be trying to prove their own individuality while feeling immortal.

TL:DR it's complex and something we really should treat as a joke.