Human Rights

Out of 135 criminals, including robbers and rapists, 118 admitted that when they were children they burned, hanged and stabbed domestic animals.
~ Ogonyok Magazine 1979.
Consider George W. Bush and his childhood tortures of frogs.


	US Health Care	Public vs Private Health Care in the USA 2012-05-17

	Abortion	Breaking the logjam in the polarised Abortion debate. 2012-05-14

	Homelessness	Ending homelessness. 2012-05-12

	Fair Trade Chocolate	Give cocoa growers a fair price for their cocoa. 2012-05-12

	Fair Trade Coffee	Give coffee growers a fair price for their coffee. 2012-05-22

Racism	Racism	What can be done about racism in Canada. 2012-05-12

	Legalising Marijuana	The case for legalising marijuana. 2012-05-21

	Euthanasia Rights	Arguments for legalised physician-assisted suicide. An account of David Lewis’s suicide. 2012-05-17

Suicide	Suicide	Talking to suicidally depressed people. 2012-05-12

Boat People	Boat People	Three solutions to the problem of illegitimate refugees arriving on rusted out boats. 2012-05-12

PORN!	Child Pornography	An argument for more compassionate and consistent handling of penalties for pedophilia and child pornography. 2012-05-12

	Taboos	A discussion of taboos, how they got started and whether they still apply. 2012-05-12

	Crime and Punishment	Vengeance-based systems of criminal justice are not able to stop rising crime. What else could be tried? 2012-05-12

	Timothy McVeigh	Inside the mind of the Oklahoma bomber. 2012-05-17

	Gay Civil Rights	The battle between equal civil rights for gays and right wing Christianity. 2012-05-12

	Feedback	Read feedback from readers of the human rights section. If you don’t want your message and my reply publicly posted, please let me know. 2012-05-12

Laws of the TV Universe

Clients defended by a lawyer in a repeating series are always innocent no matter how much evidence there is against them.

If somebody is murdered, at least two other people will have attacked them within hours of the murder.

If there is reference made to a superstition or mythical monster, it will manifest later in the show.

If there is a noise in the night, its cause is homicidal.

If A says something insulting about B, then B will be standing behind them.

If on first meeting, a heterosexual pair fight, especially if the woman trashes the man to a friend, they will be married off in the last minutes of the show.

If there are more than 10 minutes left in the show, the protagonist will face another major setback.

If a recurring character becomes romantically involved, the relationship must break up by the end of the show, often involving the death of the partner.

If a character says “I swear” in a loud voice, he is telling the truth.

If recurring character comes across a windfall, they will always lose it or it will be proven illegitimate.

Busy expensive lawyers never turn down a pro-bono case.

If a character points out there is less that a 1% chance of something happening, guaranteed it will happen.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

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