Friday, July 01, 2005
LITTLE HITLERS
Vermont schools are changing inoffensive team names to even less offensive names. A similar trend isn’t evident in Singapore:
A group of Singapore high school students have chosen Adolf Hitler for the their team name and idol at a leadership camp.
The afternoon tabloid, The New Paper, last week reported the students regarded the man who started World War II and masterminded the Holocaust as their hero because of his leadership qualities, and even described him as handsome.
“We like him. He led Germany and was very good although he was evil,” the newspaper quoted the group’s leader, an un-named 15-year-old female student, as saying in Saturday’s edition.
Vincent Lam is shocked.
ALL ABOUT OIL
Donald Rumsfeld and Alexander Downer celebrate the non-Kyoto lifestyle.
(Via Bernie Slattery)
PROFESSOR FRAGGLE
Ward Churchill—or Ward Churchill, to use his traditional tribal name—considers an ancient Indian punishment:
“Conscientious objection removes a given piece of cannon fodder from the fray,” Churchill said at an anti-military forum last week in Portland, Ore. “Fragging an officer has a much more impactful effect.”
What a brave, heroic man.
UPDATE. Major John, serving with US forces, writes: “Maybe he could suggest that to me in person. I await his reply.”
ANOTHER BULLET DODGED
Former public figure Mark Latham wanted Australia to sign on to the Kyoto Protocol. Wiser politicians steer clear of the evil thing:
President Bush said in a Danish TV interview aired Thursday that adhering to the Kyoto treaty on climate change would have “wrecked” the U.S. economy ... “I couldn’t in good faith have signed Kyoto,” Bush told the Danish Broadcasting Corp.
It’s too late for poor New Zealand.
KRYPTONITE NEEDED
Come to think of it, Superman really is a dick.