There's Starving Kids in Africa & Other News

<p>I believe that it is both foolish and wicked to have children by men without having considered even for a second or a fraction of a second whether the men have any qualities that might make them good fathers. Mistakes are possible, of course: a man may turn out not to be as expected. But not even to consider the question is to act as irresponsibly as it is possible for a human being to act. It is knowingly to increase the sum of evil in the world, and sooner or later the summation of small evils leads to the triumph of evil itself. –Theodore Dalrymple</p> <p>A six-year-old has shot his teacher in the chest. Supposedly, this is a problem with guns. But I don't think so.</p> <p>Dr. Scott Gottlieb of Pfizer sought Twitter censorship of critics of his company's vaccine. And got it. And now is playing the victim!</p> <p>An assertion of fact in whose contradiction no one would for a moment believe is not worth making. –Theodore Dalrymple</p>