Archive for the ‘Political correctness’ Category
Let the Canadian women celebrate how they want!
Saturday, February 27th, 2010Rarely have I been so pissed off in recent memory as I was at the outcries that the idiotic Olympic committee and the "international community" gave to the Canadian women's hockey team for its celebration following its gold medal victory, but what nearly made me yell at my TV was ...
Get it straight: the military does not protect our lives or our freedoms
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009War is the health of the State.—Randolph Bourne Today is Veterans' Day, formerly called Armistice Day. But, our exalted warmongering Statolatrist congressmen and senators and presidents couldn't have a holiday that celebrated the end of a colossal State endeavor, so in 1954 they renamed it Veterans' Day. The attention paid to ...
Fish in a barrel 5
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009A Texas jury decided to sentence a murderer to death after consulting their Bibles during deliberation. People who lack a solid grasp of important socio-political issues (Statists) will use this revelation to distract from the real issue. The issue they will harp on is whether this represents some violation of ...
Discrimination is usuallly fine!
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009Some people are so sensitive to political correctness that they behave way too sensitively and believe some stupid things. They see racial or sexual discrimination everywhere, underlying nearly all of society's ills, and therefore conclude that if only people were prohibited from making choices and taking actions that exhibited "discrimination" ...
Tell me if I am being sexist, realistic, naive, all of the above…
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009I'll get right to the point: When I hear about a rape case or a rape accusation, my default reaction is to side with the accused man or boy until I hear compelling evidence of his guilt. My default reaction probably should be to side with no one and have ...
Free markets would have no “gold standard”
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008The Mises Institute recently published a speech by Mark Thornton called "Monetary Freedom and Its Opposite". It was about how monetary freedom could be established, how it would benefit everyone except the "power elite," and how the Federal Reserve, with its monetary monopoly and inflationary fiat currency, destroy an economy's ...
Race and Obama’s non-achievement
Friday, November 7th, 2008Compare semi-libertarian Radley Balko's commentary on President-elect Obama's achievement: Tonight, we took a huge step toward putting race behind us. It’s something to be proud of. to real libertarian Lew Rockwell's assessment of the perception that Obama (and his voters) achieved something monumental: The main message concerns race. All the headlines blared ...
Crazy, libertarian extremists were right about the boom and bust
Sunday, October 5th, 2008Yes, I read a Karen De Coster post and wasn't immediately repulsed or offended. She makes two points I've thought to myself recently: The point being that "crazy, extremist" libertarians/contrarians/skeptics, who long ago pointed out the facts about statist policies propping up an unsustainable economic boom, are just crazy and extremist. ...
The-e-e-e-e-e-e Yankees suck!
Friday, August 29th, 2008The patriotic correctness bellowing blowhard bully brigade is in full force at Yankee Stadium, where no one is allowed to move or talk very much, much less go to the bathroom, during "God Bless America" in the 7th-inning stretch. Bradford Campeau-Laurion violated that ludicrous rule, unknowingly, and suffered the consequences, ...
The behavioral psychology of lotteries
Friday, August 15th, 2008In the August 15, 2008 issue of Science, in the Editors' Choice section of the journal, highlighting recent scientific articles the editors of Science found interesting, a study on the psychology underlying socioeconomic trends in lottery-playing was summarized: ... The low chances of winning life-style-altering prizes are prominently posted, yet many ...
Female bishops
Saturday, July 5th, 2008From ifeminists.net I saw a link to this column advocating the ordainment of female bishops in the Church of England and, in principle, the Roman Catholic Church too. Well, I don't know, I think allowing women to become bishops won't help them move forward, only diagonally.
Lynch mobs, stones, and glass houses
Friday, July 4th, 2008I urge you to read this column published at Wendy McElroy's website ifeminists.net, written by one WolfmanMac, about the increasing criminalization of being male: Lynch mobs, stones, and glass houses. The nuanced insight and analysis of one man's child-porn charges in particular and society's attitude about sexual predators in general ...
I don’t believe him
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008After saying, "What color is he?... Oh, okay, there you go," regarding Adam "Pacman" Jones's criminal record, Don Imus defends his comment by saying, "I meant that he was being picked on because he's black." It was supposed to be sarcastic, because everyone knows he's black and everyone knows blacks ...
Child faces prosecution for calling the Cult of Scientology a cult
Saturday, May 24th, 2008Jacob Sullum reports at Reason's Hit and Run that a British teenager has been summoned to court and faces a fine (and, presumably, a mark on his criminal record) for holding a sign outside of the Cult of Scientology London headquarters with the word "cult" on it. I don't understand ...
‘Speak English’ signs allowed on private property
Thursday, March 20th, 2008Well, that's good because DISCRIMINATION ISN'T A VIOLATION OF RIGHTS, you self-righteous, brain-dead busybodies. Article from MSNBC.
PC idiocy at Harvard
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008At Harvard University, that bastion of tolerance and openness, one of its gyms will be closed to men for a few hours a week. Why? To encourage women to use the weight room unintimidated? To allow more women's club sports to flourish? No, it is "to accommodate Muslim women who ...
Vox Day’s ignorance about scientists
Monday, January 28th, 2008Vox Day takes an ignorant shot at research scientists:While I have tremendous regard for the effectiveness of the scientific method, I have very, very little respect for scientists. They are very, very far from the impartial devotees of scientody that they so love to portray themselves being. With a few ...
China says, “Merry Christmas,” Google won’t
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007I try not to get all up in arms about the "liberal war on Christmas" and all the other PC things that Christian conservatives complain about, not because they aren't harmful or threatening or worthy of denunciation, but because the Christian/neocon right themselves are currently a large part of the ...