Protest by suicide…

There are indeed honorable deaths,  but setting   yourself ablaze  in a park to protest the alleged effect of fossil fuel consumption on the earth is not amongst them to my mind.   Did David Buckel imagine this cause was more acceptable than his activism for gay rights?  What a sad way to end one’s life — and so unnecessary.

UPDATE:   More information about  Buckel’s life  and history.

 

 

 

 

Anti-Shariah = Islamophobia…

At least  according to  the BBC and the hysterical Muslims it featured recently.   Muslim activists have long been using lawfare to force compliance with their wishes,  and too many Western governments are pitifully easy to cow into subservience.   For the record,  strict adherence to Sharia requires that Islamic law be recognized as supreme in all matters,  meaning that inconvenient little documents like our Constitution and Bill of Rights are used by the activists until they are no longer convenient for their purposes,  at which time they will be ignored.

Of course,  progressives would also like to do away with the First and Second Amendments,  just as His Oneness is trying to do via backdoor regulation,  which is precisely what Queen Hillary would do.   My response is that any person or government who seeks to destroy those vital rights is planning on doing something so egregious that the only proper response would be the full use of those protections.

 

 

Oberlin snowflakes…

The delicate little snowflakes who are students at Oberlin College want to abolish midterms  and any grades below C because they are too busy being activists to bother with studying.   Apparently they view college as a service and feel entitled to complain that the college is not making on-campus activism available to them and their studies are suffering because they have to drive as long as 40 minutes to engage in their preferred activities.

Do any of their parents still labor under the impression that their little darlings are actually being educated and equipped to deal with life in the real world?   If they are paying about 50 grand a year and don’t know what’s going on,  that may explain a lot…

 

 

Vet this way…

Liberals have long had a very different view of the judiciary than conservatives.  Now we have one  laying out  his premises for the proper vetting of judges.   I would laugh,  but it’s too unsettling.