...born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad

“Human rights”—here and there: In B.C. some years ago, a post-operative tranny was awarded damages by the Human Rights Tribunal because a rape crisis centre refused to hire her, causing her no end of “hurt feelings” (a big no-no here in our “we feel your pain” Trudeaupia); those who ran the centre reasoned that, considering its clients’ fragile emotional state, said individual, having only recently transgendered into womanhood, was probably not the right person for the job. In the U.K., a hair salon has just been ordered to pay a bundle of cash for refusing to hire a be-hijabed hair stylist; the salon owner reasoned that, since a stylist’s hair is one of the best advertisements for her and the salon, a woman who kept her hair under wraps might not be as much of an asset as, say, one whose charms were in plain sight.

So many “rights”; so little freedom to exercise common sense.

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