Belfast Telegraph: Isn’t it contradictory to ascribe human-based rights to animals? Surely it is absurd to apply a purely human concept to an animal who has no hope of ever understanding such a thing? Zaki Nahaboo, London Not at all. Anyone who ascribes rights to babies or humans with intellectual disabilities must be willing to […]

Seed: Girl Shortage Could Cause Rise in Crime: The authors assert that over the next 20 years, in parts of China and India, there will be a 12 to 15 percent excess of young men—men who will have to remain single in societies that also place a high value on marriage. Because women will be […]

Mutiny as passengers refuse to fly until Asians are removed | the Daily Mail: Monarch said last night: “The captain was concerned about the security surrounding the two gentlemen on the aircraft and the decision was taken to remove them from the flight for further security checks. “The two passengers offloaded from the flight were […]

Wondermark by David Malki ! – 220: In which a Plan comes together: —— its about how many millions you can inconvenience. why? because if you inconvenience them, then they will remember why they are inconvenienced. ‘for their safety’ against … someone. Great cartoon.

The Dumbing Down of America: This dumbing down of the people continues to this day. The average level of literacy of adult Americans in the 2003 Adult Literacy Survey of the U.S. Department of Education was exactly the same as in 1992. That may sound not too bad –at least there was no decline. Yet […]