Liberty’s too precious a thing to be buried in books. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day and say: I’m free to think and to speak.
– Actor Jimmy Stewart
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“One finds that time just disappears from the Wheeler-DeWitt equation,” says Carlo Rovelli, a physicist at the University of the Mediterranean in Marseille, France. “It is an issue that many theorists have puzzled about. It may be that the best way to think about quantum reality is to give up the notion of time – that the fundamental description of the universe must be timeless.” – Carlo Rovelli. Remember this next time you turn up late for an appointment. July 29th, 2007 | 48 comments - (Comments are closed)
 Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. – Thomas Jefferson July 26th, 2007 | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)
July 25th, 2007 | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)
I would like to emphasise that we by no means strive to seize full power and to dominate the Afghan policy. Our aim is not to have the upper hand in Afghanistan. No at all! What we struggle for is something else: there should be Afghanistan where every Afghan finds himself or herself – irrespective of sex – happy. I am deeply convinced that this can only be ensured by democracy and a democratically elected government, based on consensus. It is only then that we can indeed solve a number of problems that have been besetting Afghan people. The true solution lies only in such a political and social situation and only with such a type of administration when all the tribes, all the ethnic groups and all people will see themselves fairly represented. – Ahmed Shah Masoud, the ‘Lion of the Panjshir’, one of the greatest guerilla leaders and in my view the most admirable one since the American Revolution, from an interview shortly before his assassination by Islamofascists. July 17th, 2007 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area – UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer.
(via Alec Muffet) 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)
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