Category Archive: LIFE
Half empty Glasses and the Law
The Varnished Culture’s correspondent attended the 15th International Criminal Law Congress (disguised as a civilian) and reports on developments that should interest intelligent laypersons in general. After a more than usually genial ‘Welcome to Country’ by Uncle Lewis O’Brien, Kaurna Elder (a timeless indigenous ceremony invented by an activist circa 1976), Father Frank Brennan, Jesuit Priest, “Living National Treasure” and “Professor of Human Rights & Social Justice” gave a set speech, but a very learned, balanced and thoughtful one on the parlous state of indigenous Australia, which left your faithless TVC reporter completely bereft. Unable to defenestrate the grand truth (per Herr Hayek) that…
Continue Reading →Impressions – Jon-Benet Ramsey, 20 years on.
The Ramsey Case Continues – the Burke Interview We recently wrote about the speculative case mounted in a CBS Special concerning the unsolved death of Jon Benét Ramsey. Since then we have had the opportunity to view the interview by Dr Phil McGraw with Burke Ramsey, now 29 years old. Recorded earlier this year and screened in September, the first half discloses no smoking pistol but by the same token, it adds fuel to the flame (pardon the mixed metaphors). Burke denies allegations of assaulting his sister, on the night she died or ever before. There will be some who find…
Continue Reading →Gotta Love Millennials
We like Micah Taylor’s You’ve Gotta Love Millennials performed by Micah and his 3 twins…
Continue Reading →Death Finds a Way
"Will somebody just kill us? Please?" (1936 gathering of the Voluntary Euthanasia Legislation Society, Leicester - photo c/- Wellcome Images).
An earnest fellow cringed guiltily Because his elderly kin Lingered on in life so painfully, Before oblivion. — He craved leave to administer A coup de grâce to the man, And so approached a Minister In order to detail his plan. — If there was a rule a relative Could decide to throw the switch, No more in pain would a victim live And hug doom without a hitch. — Such murders are compassionate And lovingly boost the feelings That the victim was asking for it, Ceasing strife and other dealings.
Continue Reading →Updating Lady Troubridge
(By James Gillray)
“Refinement lies in the heart and the spirit rather than in outward appearance, but it is by what we do and say that we prove that it exists within us.” [Laura Troubridge, The Book of Etiquette.] Since the publication of that book in 1926, have there been any paradigm shifts? WEDDING MUSIC 1926: “The bride usually enters to the strains of Lohengrin, and goes down the aisle to those of Mendelssohn’s Wedding March.” 2016: The dominant partner will karaoke “Every Breath You Take.” INTRODUCTIONS 1926: “Care should be taken when making an introduction to pronounce the two names clearly.” 2016: ‘No need. Who…
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