…Well, for my money, that Ayla chick’s legs are almost too long, y’know? I mean, lots of unnecessary real estate to traverse on your way to the naughty bits, if you ask me. Of course, on the plus side, you’d think having a girlfriend who hits 80% of her free throws and can dunk has gotta be worth something. Right? **** note: today’s libation: margaritas (6).
March 2006
Viva la France. And we really MEAN IT!
From “Brickbats,” April Reason: French rapper Monsieur R faces up to three years in prison and a 75,000-euro fine for referring to France as a “slut” and a “bitch” and saying “I piss on Napoleon and General de Gaulle” on his latest album. Member of parliament Daniel Mach filed a complaint against the rapper, and a court has agreed to investigate the matter. Mach calls the lyrics “an attack on
British Marxists to liberals: Wake Up and Smell the Hummus! (SEE UPDATE)
From Worker’s Liberty, “The shame of the invertebrate liberals”:
How the west was wan
With thanks to Terry Hastings, a follow-up to my discussion last night on Iran—particularly, how Europe is likely to react in the event of a heightening of tensions. From the WSJ (subscribers only), Dutch novelist and adjunct fellow at the Hoover Institute Leon De Winter, “Soft Europe”:
Cultural relativity and rape
Having just completed a post on “rape” as it will now be defined in the UK, allow me to link to a semi-related discussion on “the “Muslim rape epidemic, reaction of the West, clash of cultures, adaptation/submission of western culture to the he-man woman hating (or just plain rights-of-the-indivdual hating club) that is traditional Islam.” Does each culture get to define “rape” in its own way? Or is there some
We are women, hear us roar (that we aren’t responsible for our own actions)
Interesting bit from the BBC on what amounts to “rape” as (potentially subjective) afterthought. “Ensure consent for sex, men told”:
“Student Wins Facebook.com Case at University of Central Florida”
From a press release forwarded along by F.I.R.E.’s interim president Greg Lukianoff:
“Court upholds campus military recruiting law”
Reuters: A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that universities that get federal funds must allow military recruiters on campus, even if their law schools oppose the Pentagon’s policy prohibiting openly gays and lesbians from serving. The high court upheld as constitutional a federal law dating back to 1994 that allows the government to withhold money from universities that deny military recruiters the same access to campuses given to
