… and in order to fit in better with the people around you, feel the need to blast off about ten IQ points, you are in luck! Just watch this from our good chums over at the BBC. It is an experience a bit like holding a live piranha to the side of your head.
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The horror in Kenya is almost beyond belief. Almost. One hundred and forty seven dead, mostly Kenyan university students. I wonder how ‘the west’ will get blamed for this one? April 2nd, 2015 | 32 comments - (Comments are closed)
 Back in the 1986, we actually had that bastion of idiotarianism, Channel Four, run a program called “The New Enlightenment: the rebirth of liberalism”, about Frederick Hayek, Milton Friedman et al. But I would have never guessed that in 2015 we would be experiencing a New Endarkenment. Fuck you. No seriously, fuck every last one of you who turned off those lights and made parts of glorious London look like North Korea. Well my house was a gleaming beacon I can assure you, with every single light turned on. Maybe I will purchased some searchlights for next year’s endarkenment. Yeah, this is my ‘hang over’ from ‘Earth Hour’ rather than this incident per se. April 2nd, 2015 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
Whilst surfing for ‘Wet T-Shirt Contest’ sites, I accidentally came upon this wonderful advance… hardback novels for sale actually written in binary!
Is this not awesome?
Snappy! A true page turner. April 1st, 2015 | 34 comments - (Comments are closed)
Rather than engaging Russia in a futile pre-modern discourse about race and ethnicity, Ukrainians should integrate into multicultural, multiracial, tolerant Europe. As for Russia, it would have done a lot better if after the collapse of the Soviet Union it had declared itself a new nation, born on the day it rose up to defeat the hardline communist coup in August 1991. Had it started from a blank page, the way the United States did in 1776, it might have freed itself of its damaging 19th century imperial hangups. April 1st, 2015 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
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I assume this risible claim by NSPCC (the quango responsible for the discredited family destroying ‘satanic‘ moral panic of the 1980’s/90’s), is priming the pump for the next assault on civil liberties to justify its existence, yes?
…”researchers found” is a phase that is pure gold, it is not? Perhaps children have fundamentally changed since I was one, but when I was in my early teens, if I saw a ‘helpline’ being advertised that could assist me regarding porn, I would have called it on the assumption they were going to help me find the ‘good stuff’ rather than those hairy porkers in Mayfair or Men Only 😉 March 31st, 2015 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
When you look at 19th century America or 18th and 16th century Europe, all of a sudden it’ll become clearer that the thing that broke the back of poverty and privilege in developed countries in the past was when property rights came around and destroyed feudal title. March 31st, 2015 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
I was watching this video about electric cars… …and was struck by this remark by Mark Tinker, discussing driving a Tesla:
Hmmm… Then I had a flash forward a few years into the future… Me: Hello, sorry I am a bit late, but I had a car crash. Friend: oh no, is everyone alright? Me: Not that kind, I just had to pull over and wait for the car to reboot. March 30th, 2015 | 17 comments - (Comments are closed)
The part I find hilarious is the divestment movement that’s popping up around this law. They’re basically saying that Indianans have done something they find deeply and personally offensive, so the boycotters are going to refuse to do business with them as a result. It sounds like a prima facie argument for the exact bill that they’re opposed to. – Samizdata commenter Alsadius March 30th, 2015 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
When I read this:
… I concluded the best way to keep your children safe is to home school them so that they stay as far away as possible, not from GTA, but from power obsessed busybodies like these people. March 30th, 2015 | 17 comments - (Comments are closed)
… and you cannot have freedom of association without freedom of disassociation. Therefore I am perfectly willing to see a non-state owned company decline to do business with me because of my politics, or because of my hippopotamus fetish, or because I tend to wear red trousers. Of course by ‘perfectly willing to see’ I mean ‘that a company is legally permitted to discriminate against me’… I am not suggesting I would be thrilled by it. So is there any reason anyone who cares about liberty should oppose this? Indeed would it not be better if the law just stated it was none of the state’s business who a company chooses not to do business with for any reason, absent any prior or overarching contractual obligation? March 29th, 2015 | 44 comments - (Comments are closed)
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