Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet No doubt you have heard of “advance directives” – guidelines for your carers, guardians or doctors on what do to in the event that you are not competent to instruct them. Right-to-die associations often promote them as a way of
Tasmanian women discovered, this week, that there is nowhere they can go to get away from men. The Tasmanian Gay and Bisexual Alliance had sought to exclude biological men and their penises from lesbian events, where penises are presumably about as sought after as a turd in a punchbowl. Nothing
The word for today is… sanctimonious (adjective) – 1 : hypocritically pious or devout 2 obsolete : possessing sanctity : holy Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : There’s nothing sacred about “sanctimonious”-at least not any more. But in the early 1600s, the English adjective was still sometimes used to describe someone truly holy or
The late Douglas Adams coined the term, “Agglethorpe” in his satirical dictionary, The Meaning of Liff. An agglethorpe is “a dispute between two pooves in a boutique”. As the “alphabet people” steadily exhaust the 26 character limit in their quest for ever more obscure “identities”, we are witnessing an agglethorpe
Donna M. mercatornet.com Donna M. is a writer who was censored by Medium when her insights on transgender issues were labelled “hate speech.” Like many children of the 70s, I came of age watching Olympians like Mary Lou Retton, Greg Louganis, Scott Hamilton, and Carl Lewis. They were like
The word for today is… didactic (adjective)- 1 a : designed or intended to teach b : intended to convey instruction and information as well as pleasure and entertainment 2 : making moral observations Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Didaktikós is a Greek word that means “apt at teaching.” It comes from didáskein,
Abigail Streetman newsbusters.org Abigail Streetman is a third-year student at the University of Florida, majoring in Biology and minoring in Innovation. Abigail is the UF Turning Point USA president, Gainesville Activism Hub president, and a member of College Republicans, Network of Enlightened Women, and Young Americans for Liberty. J.
The word for today is… malleable (adjective) – 1 : capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers 2a : capable of being altered or controlled by outside forces or influences b : having a capacity for adaptive change Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : There is
Joanne Nova cfact.org A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. She hosted a children’s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews, many on the Australian ABC. It turns out
P.J. Gladnick newsbusters.org P.J. Gladnick is probably the only writer on NewsBusters to have received an award from the Soviet Union. It was for his work as an American correspondent for Krokodil Magazine which you can see chronicled in I Was A Commie Writer. Wikipedia co-founder Larry
The word for today is… anfractuous (adjective) full of windings and intricate turnings : tortuous Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Plots and paths can be anfractuous. They twist and turn but do not break. Never mind that our English word comes from Latin anfractus (same meaning as anfractuous), which in turn comes
You’re no doubt grimly familiar by now with the odious term, “the precautionary principle”. This has become the go-to excuse for every leftist busybody, green curtain-twitcher and nanny-stater who just lives to tell other people what to do. Want to stop a coal mine? “Ah, precautionary principle!” Lock up
The word for today is… mordant (adjective, noun, verb) adjective 1 : biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style (a mordant wit) 2 : acting as a mordant (as in dyeing) 3 : burning, pungent noun 1 : a chemical that fixes a dye in or on a substance by combining with the
An old mate of mine used to justify an early beer or three by saying, “Hey, it’s five o’clock somewhere”. Reading the news, sometimes I think every day must be April 1st somewhere. It’s hard to deny that we live in a Clown World, when men are
theblogmire.com Once upon a time, there was a little chick called Chicken Licken. One day as she was scratching about in the farmyard, she heard a message coming from the television in the farmhouse saying that everyone must stay home or else we would all die. ‘Oh no,’ cried
