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More politically correct absurdity in the UK. Last week, it emerged that hundreds of schools have forbidden teachers to mark with red ink for fear of upsetting children. Now this:
A new £4.7million school has opened to controversy after banning the word ’school’ from its title because it has ‘negative connotations’.
Critics have slammed the [...]
On Saturday, 20 December, a sample of residents of Shiqiao, a town near Nanjing, China, received a call from the provincial Statistics Bureau and were asked questions about personal happiness and income and other fascinating stuff. The survey found that they were exceedingly happy indeed. Shiqiao residents reported a satisfaction index of over [...]
Pseudonymous British blogger-bobby PC David Copperfield moved to Edmonton, Alberta, about a year ago. Some people have asked him about the main differences between policing in the UK and in Canada.
Much police work remains the same, of course, but there are notable differences. British police have more powers (to stop, search, arrest) but [...]
This stupidity was reported from Australia less than a month ago and it’s already spread to (formerly Great) Britain.
Hundreds of schools have barred teachers from marking in red in case it upsets the children.
They are scrapping the traditional method of correcting work because they consider it ‘confrontational’ and ‘threatening’.
Pupils increasingly find that the ticks and [...]
When you come across a bunch of people calling themselves “human rights carolers”, you can bet they’re not spreading Christmas cheer.
Thirty human rights carolers braved the cold and ice today to serenade Manhattan’s holiday shoppers with a call, for the second year, to boycott the jewelry store and companies of Israeli settlement-builder and diamond mogul [...]
Cartoon by the award-winning Steve Breen, San Diego Union-Tribune
I, for one, would like to hear more about the LaytonAway Program!
Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, Hamilton Spectator
Today’s news brings two more examples of British officialdom presumptuously instructing citizens to avoid causing offence to non-Christians—even though there’s no evidence that anyone other than minor bureaucrats is offended.
First up: Salvation Army bands have been threatened over rattling tins used for money collections.
Members have been forbidden to shake their charity tins - even if [...]
This is said to be the “the second feat of hanky-panky”. I don’t know what the first is, and I don’ t think I want to know.
‘The second feat of hanky-panky consists of knocking your head against the edge of a door with such apparent force as to break your skull, provided it be [...]
Red ink is too “aggressive”. It might offend the kids’ delicate sensibilities.
Queensland’s Deputy Opposition Leader Mark McArdle told parliament today that teachers were being advised to reconsider their pen choice because it may offend children.
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“Given your 10-year-old Labor government presides over the lowest numeracy and literacy standards of any state in Australia, don’t you think [...]
“Uncovering The Darker Side Of Forced Marriage” — [Glasgow] Daily Record, 1 December 2008
It’s the end of an era as the vehicle voted worst car of the millennium has gone out of production.
The Yugo, the car everyone — or almost everyone — loved to hate, is no more.
The last one has rolled of the production line at the Zastava factory in the Serbian town of Kragujevac.
Since it first [...]
A fascinating conversation appeared earlier this week at Apple’s online discussion board. A poster claimed to be a woman who had discovered troubling and suspicious items on her husband’s iPhone. When she asked about them, he claimed to be the victim of an iPhone “glitch”.
I took my husband’s i-phone and found a raunchy [...]
A British Columbia judge has refused to rule frivolous a lawsuit by one Jerry Rose, who claims that his mind has been controlled by, among others, Microsoft, Telus, the RCMP, Wal-Mart, the University of BC, and the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Mr. Rose’s claim says “he has been subject to invasive brain computer interface [...]
If our Lord spoke like a post-modern Anglican, his encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well might have gone something like this.
Exhausted from global warming in oppressed Palestine, Jesus chilled at Jacob’s Well in the realm of “the other” called Samaria.
Jesus’ cohort left him to buy organic at the nearest kiosk.
A Samaritan woman-”the other [...]
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