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Oliver Stone is like a weird version of ouroboros: not so much a serpent swallowing its own tail but rather a serpent with its head jammed up its own arse, a conspiracy theory propagandist for some of the vilest tyrants and thugs on this planet. And I have never made any secret of the fact I regard Edward Snowden as a hero. Therefore I am aghast to see that Oliver Stone, of all people, has made a movie about Snowden. Suffice to say I do not hold out much hope. April 30th, 2016 | 36 comments - (Comments are closed)
 I find this self-evident:
But given the flood of pro-EU scare stories that Reuters tends to run, I was a bit surprised to see it get some pixels there. April 28th, 2016 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
… to keep out the floods of undesirable US celebrities fleeing the USA following a Trump victory. April 27th, 2016 | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)
I must stay I found this quite interesting!
Fascinating. April 25th, 2016 | 60 comments - (Comments are closed)
I have met Bill, and he is splendid chap to put it mildly. But I clearly need to watch him more closely because a few days ago he revealed himself to be a man of hitherto unguessed talents. He is a… rapper! April 25th, 2016 | 21 comments - (Comments are closed)
The frat and sorority scene didn’t appeal to me at all. Back when I was at the University of Michigan, I went to a single frat party, encountered a bunch of drunk assholes, and never went to another. Wow. Imagine that: All the way back in the 80s, too — a young woman on campus making her own decisions about what works or doesn’t work for her…without assistance from the government or calls to discipline anyone. Radical, huh? – The ever magnificent Amy Alkon. April 21st, 2016 | 40 comments - (Comments are closed)
With that in mind, it seem positively hilarious that he appears to be unaware of the Streisand Effect! You’d need a heart of stone not to laugh 😀 April 19th, 2016 | 23 comments - (Comments are closed)
King is aware that monetary policy has been used to provide short-term gains at the cost of long-term pain – what he calls the “paradox of policy”. Despite extremely low rates, the global economy remains out of kilter. It’s a pity that King never considers Friedrich Hayek’s early work which suggests that economies become unbalanced when central bankers impose an inappropriate interest rate. But as King buys into the “savings glut” story, he doesn’t believe that monetary policymakers are to blame. For the man in charge of the Bank of England when UK bank Northern Rock went down, this is a convenient if not quite satisfactory conclusion. April 11th, 2016 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
The samizdata smitebot interface is well and truly out of London, drinking nice wine and eating mighty food, so there may be delays in unsmiting comments that get moderated by the dreaded samizdata smitebot. According to Google Maps, I could walk to Kiev in 170 hours or Warsaw in 92 hours. Where am I?
April 7th, 2016 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
For America, and indeed the rest of the world, Clinton versus Trump will be like being on a bus being driven at high speed towards a cliff by a psychopath, where there’s a chance that a chimpanzee might grab control of the steering wheel. It’s not a question of whether this will make things better or worse, it’s more that the whole idea of “better” may be gradually ceasing to exist. – Frankie Boyle. The rest of the article is flatulent Guardianista stream-of-consciousness gibberish but that bit made me laugh. I read this shit so you don’t have to. And I do agree with this: “It’s not a question of whether this will make things better or worse, it’s more that the whole idea of “better” may be gradually ceasing to exist” … it is highly unlikely Frankie Boyle and I have the same notions in mind about what “better” looks like (indeed his “better” is almost certainly my very much “worse”), but that phrase does a good job of describing my view on the folly of decade after decade of voting for whoever is ever so slightly less evil. Things never get better unless you support, well, better, rather than “less worse”. Unless you are willing to punish “your side” by not pulling that lever, eventually it stops being your side because you will vote for it anyway. And in evidence of that, I present the G.O.P. April 5th, 2016 | 66 comments - (Comments are closed)
Oh, and today’s Brexit scare story appears to be pro football. Our clubs will be stymied if they can’t employ lots of Belgians. Don’t look at the fact that they do Employ lots of Africans who, AFAIK, aren’t EU citizens. – Kevin B. March 31st, 2016 | 17 comments - (Comments are closed)
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