The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
– John Dalberg-Acton
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If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage. – attributed to Margaret Thatcher July 27th, 2010 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
 July 21st, 2010 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
Oh, and anyone in the government opposing [calls for Islamic dress for women to be banned in Britain] is to be conditionally applauded… …they are right to reject this vile authoritarian notion… …but if they opposite it because “Islamic dress is ok” then they are a horse’s arse and need to called that. A burqua or any item of islamic dress for women is as “ok” as a Nazi arm band… and people’s ability to wear Nazi arm bands also should not be banned, but they sure as hell should not be applauded. – Perry de Havilland July 20th, 2010 | 25 comments - (Comments are closed)
Subtracting time needed to get to the area, at 146,000 barrels per day that translates into 9 million barrels that could have been processed since the initial offer was made by the Dutch. – a commenter here called ‘Willab’ remarking on the belated US decision to accept Dutch assistance in dealing with the BP oil spill. July 15th, 2010 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. – Alvin Toffler July 13th, 2010 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
July 9th, 2010 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
Germane to Michael Jennings’ post below pertaining to Prince’s declaration that the “Internet is completely over”, I had a brief conversation with a decidedly winsome 20-something young lady, elegant yet edgy (she was a cut glass accented thoroughbred Sloane Ranger wearing ‘All Saints’). She was sitting in a sandwich shop in a well-heeled part of town… expensive Apple laptop open as she availed herself of the free WiFi whilst having luncheon… The following really happened, serious, not joking.
I do not believe she immediately grasped the sheer transcendent irony of the moment. July 7th, 2010 | 17 comments - (Comments are closed)
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. – George Washington July 6th, 2010 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his being dependent on us. Now, this is what constitutes the very essence of society. To sever natural interrelations is not to make oneself independent, but to isolate oneself completely. – Frederic Bastiat June 25th, 2010 | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. – Groucho Marx May 22nd, 2010 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
As seen in a signature on a Star Wars: The Old Republic games forum: [Luke:] I can’t believe it. [Yoda:] That is why you fail. [Ayn Rand:] Success does not come from believing in a steaming pile of mystic gibberish, you stupid little green man [ignites her lightsabre and advances threateningly] – Act IV, The Fountainhead Strikes Back May 21st, 2010 | 19 comments - (Comments are closed)
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