The Unbearable Assholes of Rainbow Bullying

I recently had a representative of the “rainbow” brigade ruffle its feathers at me and petulantly hiss that “us alphabet people are very welcoming of all kinds of people…we are seen as a place of acceptance, equality and diversity”. Whereupon I suggested that perhaps La Rainbow might want to broaden its horizons somewhat beyond the …

Kevin07 and Jacindarella: How Political Fairy stories go Bung

With a New Zealand election due later this year, it can't hurt to revisit this piece I wrote in August last year. Here’s a political fairytale that New Zealand readers might find familiar: a youthful neophyte with almost no political experience unexpectedly sweeps to leadership of the Opposition, and within a few short months rides …

Bad Orange Man Cheats the Left Again – and Rewrites the Rulebook

The NPCs are Angry Because the Bad Orange Man is NOT a Warmonger. A Devil's Curmudgeon. Imagine if the left demanded a war and Trump didn’t come? It’s not quite what happened last month, but it’s near enough. While the Trump-deranged left stopped short of actually demanding a war with Iran, it was plain that …

Animals are not the best people Pt 2: Meat is not murder

As I discussed in Part One of this post, humans undoubtedly benefit from consuming animal products, including meat. It can be argued that the human benefit outweighs the animal cost. Many animal activists object to such utilitarian arguments, arguing instead that animals’ moral status as “sentient beings” or “persons” grants them fundamental rights. But what …

Animals are not the best people Pt 1: In defense of meat

Psychologist Hal Herzog specialises in studying the relationships between humans and other animals. In his excellent book, Some we love, some we hate, some we eat, he concludes that humans, from animal activists to researchers and even cockfighters, are basically incapable of thinking rationally about other animals. That’s not to say that it’s completely impossible …

Sir Roger Scruton, 1944-2020

If ever I was tempted to think of myself as particularly clever, all I had to do to disabuse myself of that delusion was to read anything by Sir Roger Scruton. Scruton was one of the most formidable intellects of our age. While perhaps not as easily read as, say, Christopher Hitchens or Clive James, …