Links: Good news from the Hague and Joe Biden goes to Europe

Links: Good news from the Hague and Joe Biden goes to Europe 

Sadly, Mladic's conviction is the exception that proves the rule that tyrants can still get away with genocide. The lesson of the Shoah and Porajmos has not been learned. Auschwitz is repeated all over the planet, even now.

Biden should get the Nobel for ridding the world of Trump and doing a much needed apology tour.

Mitch is inviting an end to the filibuster, although he is often crazy like a fox. The push to scrap it led to his collection of unqualified pro-life judges added to the Court. I reviewed ProPublica's article. It needs work, especially regarding its main premise. This shows that journalists are not accountants. 

Businesses will do what they need to do to stay in business, which means they won't require masking if others don't. At some point, people are responsible for getting themselves sick, especially because the consensus natural history of the virus is still incorrect. If it were better known, the pandemic would have been knocked down long ago.

The question of euthanasia concerns the power of the state to punish suicide. Most such laws are an attempt to force mental patients into treatment. They were never designed to speed up end of life care. There is no "throwaway culture." Liberty is the right to be left alone when the majority thinks otherwise. There are some things society should have no say over and active euthanasia is one of them. 

At least passive euthanasia, letting someone die without interference, is still considered a basic right. It's called natural death. As a resurrection people, it should be embraced. The idea that assisted suicide is wrong is a hangover of the belief that God can be offended if Her prerogatives are stepped on; that She is an Ogre. Dressing up those fears as a social justice issue is more of the same tired arguments.