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I've often joked that one difference between Germans and the Brits is that while queue-jumping is practically a national sport in Germany, it's one of the few things punishable by death in Britain.
I had no idea how accurate that joke was.
Truth continues to bulldoze fiction into oblivion.
In this week's issue of The Economist, there is an article about an international forum investigating the spread of AIDS worldwide, particularly the reasons for why it spread faster in Africa than elsewhere.
They came to the conclusion that one reason is because it is supposedly common for people in Africa to have a long-term, open network of lovers outside the marriage, as opposed to the "serial polygamy" practiced elsewhere in the world.
BoE and I have the theory that this refers to men exchanging their harems en masse.
I am still the Hitler of our time. This Hitler has only one objective - justice for his own people, sovereignty for his own people, recognition of the independence of his people and their right to their own resources. If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfold. Ten times Hitler, that is what we stand for.
I've only seen one of these so far (the "Sensitivity Training" vid) and lost it so badly I can't quite get myself to watch another one. So I'm linking to it to remind myself to watch it later, when I've calmed down a bit...
The British Home Office and the Dutch equivalent seem to think gays aren't persecuted in Iran.
Nevermind that homosexuality is punishable with the death penalty in Iran, and executions are still routine. Including that of the boyfriend of the gay man in question. But no, he's in no danger when he gets sent there! Pshaw!
I'm sick of the bashing of "asylum seekers" and "illegal immigrants". It's like Prohibition. Why criminalize something that ought to be a self-evident right, particularly when cases like this one are frequent? Immigration law that is designed to simply keep people out is inherently unjust and nonsensical -- but most people don't think about it because they've never been confronted by it. So it continues.
A Delaware school district has agreed to revise its policies on religion as part of a settlement with two Jewish families who had sued over the pervasiveness of Christian prayer and other religious activities in the schools.
One family said it was forced to leave its home in Georgetown because of an anti-Semitic backlash.
Sadly, further evidence that my fellow Christians can be remarkable numbskulls.
