Month: May 2007

Indoctrinate U.

Ed Morrissey at Captain’s Quarters talks to a Hamline University student who was suspended[*1] for merely suggesting, in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech incident, that the university take another look at the universitty’s gun-free zone policy.

This is not tolerance.  This is tyranny.

I haven’t yet seen the movie Indoctrinate U.[*2] but I intend to.  From initial reviews, all those who truly, REALLY believe in tolerance should probably do so as well.

That’s no ape, that’s a “person!”

Lawyers want an Austrian court to declare a chimpanzee a “person.”[*1]

“If we can get Hiasl declared a person, he would have the right to own property. Then, if people wanted to donate something to him, he’d have the right to receive it,” said Theuer, who has vowed to take the case to the European Court of Human Rights if necessary.

Austria isn’t the only country where primate rights are being debated. Spain’s parliament is considering a bill that would endorse the Great Ape Project, a Seattle-based international initiative to extend “fundamental moral and legal protections” to apes.

Maybe I’m just being a Neanderthal, but I think this is just silly.