We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.

Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]

Samizdata slogan of the day

A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
– Terry Pratchett, The Truth

Weird things I see on the Internet

I smell blood so i lie and smear chocolate lather on your bare butt after drunks lick a frantic puppy’s bitter, delicate love leg but i say he would use weak honey spray as purple breast wax & drive a smooth finger from my sausage to get juice with enormous power with a delirious boy lusting mad feet sweat through thousands of rusty and elaborate meat gardens yet easy you chant only ugly behind raw produce in their beauty ships so why not sit your shiny white apperatus and crush the tiny hairy symphony of void summer death petalness and shake your luscious tongue you repulsive mother of true peach fluff who said the milk never worshiped the pink rock as i did and my fiddle is singing to drool.

Samizdata slogan of the day

Blogs cannot change the way newspapers are written, but they can change the way people read them

Samizdata slogan of the day

Where liberty is, there is my country
– Benjamin Franklin

Samizdata quote of the day

I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

Samizdata quote of the day

One last thought: Fahrenheit 9/11 is many things, but for pity’s sake let’s not call it a documentary.
– Ty Burr, Boston Globe

The Liberal Democrats

If you meet Liberal Democrats trying to claim that after the local government elections that Britain now has three-party politics, tell them that after the European elections it actually has four-party politics; and their party is fourth.

I have long thought that Liberal-Democrats deserved to be rounded up and kept in high security prisons. However, a friend suggests a more useful alternative. Why don’t we use genetic engineering to breed a four-headed hydra with the likenesses of Hayek, von Mises, Friedman and Reagan? It could seek out Liberal Democrats, wrap itself around them, and suck the collectivism out of them. The discarded husks could then be shredded and recycled as packaging for the fast food industry.

Inspiring

Do not cooperate with attempts by the state to take your property without prior consent… and have some fun playing with them in the process.

Samizdata quote of the day

Never get between a dog and his favourite lamp post
– Unknown

Samizdata slogan of the day

[A]ny time you hear the term “consumer advocate”, think “government advocate”.

– Ted Schuerzinger

Samizdata quote of the day

Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn’t try it on.
– Billy Connolly

Samizdatista sightings in Manhattan?

There have been rumoured Dale Amon sightings in the Irish bars of Manhattan. Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid…