Of geese and ganders

From the Telegraph: Increasingly, judges are questioning whether consensual sex with a minor should be treated so harshly when the victim is male, particularly if the couple marry. Legal experts are even asking whether the law should intervene if the boy is happy with the relationship…. Last year, a study found that 40 per cent […]

Francis doesn’t lighten up

You’ll have to read this here, lest you scare the little boys from their very serious business: Hey stupid Christians Hey Vox Popoli fans – you don’t get it, do you ? We are writing about your champion Vox Day because he’s an imbecile and his absurd moral nihilism is so outrageous that it deserves […]

Mailvox: the hidden contempt for women

Norah is skeptical: “And if one of you assholes (and you know who you are) that I’ve been reading the past few days would EVER lift a finger to save me from a rapist, then I’m Queen fucking Elizabeth. There is a certain irony in that the more traditionally oriented male – the sort who […]

The moralist in spite of himself

Dr. Eco comes to Chesterton: Human beings are religious animals. It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion. You can see this in the positivist scientists of the 19th century. They insisted that they were describing the universe in rigorously materialistic terms – yet at […]

Amusing accident… or an early warning

Germany turns to National Socialist propaganda: A multi-million pound campaign to boost Germans’ low self-confidence has backfired after it emerged that its slogan was first coined by the Nazis. The £20 million Du Bist Deutschland – You Are Germany – campaign was devised to inspire Germans to stop moaning and do something good for their […]

The rape myth

From the Telegraph: Twice this week the rape laws have been called into question. First, Amnesty International expressed its shock at the findings of a poll suggesting that many people believe that if a woman flirts, fails to say no clearly, wears sexy clothes or drinks too much, she is partly or totally responsible if […]

Mailvox: respect and you will be respected

qwerty complains: That has been my exact point all along, for which I am called names (old bitter man, asshole, pervert) by the good Christians on this blog. All I’ve ever done on this blog is to state that some of us cannot believe. Those who do believe are not influenced by any logic or […]

As long as you’re killing your own people

From the Daily Telegraph: The Brazilian man shot dead by police in the mistaken belief that he was a suicide bomber was killed with a type of bullet banned in warfare under international convention, The Daily Telegraph has learned. The firing of hollow point ammunition into the head of Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, is […]

Eyes opened too late

From the UK Telegraph: “The feared ‘Iron Lady’… played an unfriendly, indeed a dangerous role,” in the debate over reunification, he argues in Helmut Kohl, Memories 1982 to 1990. The book, Mr Kohl has hinted, is his revenge on Lady Thatcher for her snubbing him in her own memoirs as a “provincial politician”. His fury […]

Londonistan

In which it is devoutly hoped that the ladies who voted Labour into power enjoy wearing their burqahs: Britain’s population is projected to rise by more than seven million in the next 25 years – a far greater increase than official forecasts have previously predicted…. This year net migration is forecast to be even higher […]