We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area
– UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer.
Not often you see a remark quite like that.
(via Alec Muffet)
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July 14th, 2007 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
 One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something that makes no sense, devious reasons are imagined by conspiracy theorists, when in fact it may be due to plain old ignorance and incompetence. July 8th, 2007 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
Gaia is tommyrot in a laser-guided podule. It isn’t just wank it’s wankenstein tetrated. – Commenter Nick M July 7th, 2007 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
Dick Turpin was hanged for helping himself to people’s money – [Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs] wants it to be legal July 5th, 2007 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
“I tried a ‘fairtrade’ wine. It was Ochre Mountain Sauvignon Blanc FAIRTRADE, Chile 2006, and was utterly appalling. It was nasty, sharp and acidic, with nothing at all behind it. It was filthy stuff, and I was careful not to get any of it on my hands. Whoever made it has achieved the difficult feat of making a bad Chilean wine. I suppose they think the ‘fairtrade’ tag will sell it anyway. Fortunately I didn’t waste £12.95 on a bottle. I had a glass at £3.65. The five friends with me were so intrigued by my description of its awfulness that they all took a taste, and that got rid of it pretty quickly.” June 10th, 2007 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
If you are not regularly reading Michael Yon, you are really missing out on something interesting. June 9th, 2007 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
As a great French historian has pointed out, the vineyards of France are perhaps the single greatest cultural legacy of the Roman empire, and it is now more than two millennia since people in Britain first became aware of the intoxicating powers of wine. In all that time, no government in history has yet thought the people so moronic that they needed to be told, on the bottle, that wine could go to your head – Boris Johnson, discussing plans to put warning labels on wine. June 7th, 2007 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favour of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. – H. L. Mencken June 5th, 2007 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
Freedom is not feeling like an outcast in the face of mainstream consensus. – Adriana Lukas at the Apeldoorn conference in the Hague June 3rd, 2007 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies – Groucho Marx May 29th, 2007 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
It seemed to me that on one side you had representatives of a fanatical cult trying to foist its views on the rest of the world and on the other… the Church of Scientology. Truly, they deserve one another. May 17th, 2007 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
“Vote Blue” the Tories say, “Go Green” – Sean Gabb. To see him on 18 Doughty Street discussing the Resignation of Tony Blair, go here. May 14th, 2007 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
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