Quick Takes – The Spread Of Death: Slippery Slope In Australia; 16,000 Dead In Canada; On The March In France

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.

     The focus this time: March AND Die!

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

Death, Rx

     Victoria, Australia, is generally known to be Left-of-Center in Australian politics; it is also embracing making it that much more easy for doctors to kill their patients.

“When assisted suicide is first proposed for legalization, we are assured by death activists that strict guidelines will protect against abuse. But they don’t mean it. Once the laws pass, the supposed protections — which are always flaccid to begin with — are soon redefined by activists and the media as ‘barriers,’ et voila, the laws are soon loosened. It’s all a con, but people seem to fall for it every time.

“This pattern can be seen vividly playing out in Victoria, Australia. The state was the first in that country to legalize assisted suicide, and now the government is making more people eligible for legally hastened death. From the premier’s announcement:

‘The new legislation will remove unnecessary barriers to accessing VAD, improve clarity for practitioners, strengthen safety measures and make the system fairer and more compassionate.’

“See what I mean? ‘Strengthen safety,’ (!!!) and ‘fairer and more compassionate,’ really just means more people can become dead much sooner.”

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Big Brother Is Bartending

     Soon, in the U.K., your bartender at the local pub will be required to report on your doubleplusungood utterances to the police if they hear you, the customer, say “Conversations, Remarks, Comments or Jokes that an employee may find offensive”.

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News of the Week (January 25th, 2026)

 

News of the Week for January 25th, 2026


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Firing Line Friday: What’s Wrong with the Political Parties?

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.

     With modern voters increasingly eschewing both major political parties and becoming independents, let us look back forty years ago when William F. Buckley, Jr., Michael E Kinsley, and Charles Peters asked what’s wrong with the political parties.

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Quick Takes – Crazy Nature Rights: For Wild Animals; For Bees; For Tax Collectors

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.

     The focus this time: Bears, Bees, and Bureaucrats, oh my!

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     Somehow wildlife has a right to make you socialist!

“‘Just preservation’ stands out as the framework most aligned with the egalitarian worldview cultivated by left politics. This model emphasizes respect and dignity for other species and attention to the interrelationships between them, rather than the modes through which humans might profit from them. Just preservation advocates for ethical impartiality between species, such that we do not treat species on the basis of any positive preference or negative prejudice. It proposes a multispecies society with equitable distribution of resources and an acknowledgement of responsibilities to other species, as well as explicit consideration for the future of all species.

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“The principles of just preservation are compatible with socialist thought, and have been strengthened by scientific investigation, moral and philosophical inquiry, and a rational analysis of the failures of traditional conservation. In practice, just preservation would involve explicitly weighing the interests of current human, future human, and non-anthropocentric interests against one another when considering how to “use” nature. People representing these interests would make their case in front of a public trustee (plausibly a reformed version of our currently existing, hunter-dominated state wildlife and natural resource committees), and the trustee would make allocations based upon those resources.”

     They just want humans to have less rights than some wild critter or plant.

“This is the thing with advocates of nature rights, animal rights, wild animal rights, plant rights, etc. They expect humans to be radically self-sacrificing in the name of the putative ‘rights’ of nonhumans, and even of geological features, while animals and the rest of nature have no reciprocal responsibilities — because that is beyond their ken! In other words, the everything-has-rights radicals admit the truth of human exceptionalism while denying that it exists.”

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News of the Week (January 18th, 2025)

 

News of the Week for January 25th, 2026


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Firing Line Friday: The Uses of the United Nations

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.

     The place of international institutions, their usefulness, and our place in them is as much as a question and topic of hot debate as it was half-a-century ago when William F. Buckley, Jr. discussed with then-Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan the uses of the United Nations.

     Until next Friday.

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Quick Takes – Not Dead Yet: Cash For Rebranded DEI At Harvard; Cornell’s Zombie DEI; Banned Iowa DEI Continues

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.

     The focus this time: It’s like a bad horror franchise where the entire point is to squeeze out even more money from people.

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     Apparently zero funding means more funding if you switch sock puppets at Harvard.

“Harvard University’s newly established Office for Community Culture (OCC) now holds more funding and resources than all three of the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices it replaced, Harvard Dean David Deming told The Harvard Crimson.

“The OCC, which was launched earlier this year, absorbed the College’s former Women’s Center, BGLTQ Office, and Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations under a new sect of the office called the ‘Harvard Foundation.’

“Calming the fears of students who believed DEI was being eradicated, Deming confirmed that the funding slotted towards the Harvard Foundation’s rebranded DEI programming is more than all three of the DEI centers it replaced.”

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Gender Eunuchorn

     The so-called “Gender Unicorn” has been around as an “explainer” for various letters on the LGBTQ&c. smorgasbord of queerness, especially for the transgender ideology, for well over a decade.

     Since then, we’ve learned that their gender ideology isn’t so much a unicorn as a eunuchorn.

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News of the Week (January 11th, 2026)

 

News of the Week for January 11th, 2026


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