He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points to a career in politics.
– George Bernard Shaw
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September 16th, 2002 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
 There are five Great National Delusions. The first is that there are solutions to all the problems. The second is that only a strong centre can solve the problems. The third is that the strong centre must embody one’s own views exclusively. The fourth Great Delusion is that heroic surgery is required, and the fifth, that the heroic surgeons must be oneself and one’s cronies armed with scalpels as big as machetes. September 15th, 2002 | Comments are closed
September 14th, 2002 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
September 11th, 2002 | 22 comments - (Comments are closed)
Leather trousers should be tight because they are to men what ‘Wonderbras’ are to women September 7th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Rydell has a theory about virtual real estate. The smaller and cheaper the physical site of a given operation, the bigger and cheesier the website. September 6th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Lewinsky and Clinton have shown September 5th, 2002 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
From time to time, the Lima newspapers publish stories about such and such a community’s having “invaded” properties of latifundists or miners. The informed reader knows what is happening. Disgusted with being dispossessed, lacking official justice, the Indians have decided to take through their own efforts what has always belonged to them. September 4th, 2002 | Comments are closed
He whose desires have been throttled, This passage, to me, is about a free cosmopolitan, freed from imposed ties, much of his life seemingly empty but in fact intellectualised and indeed virtualized, his actions seemingly random to those who look on from outside but, like the birds, actually quite purposeful September 3rd, 2002 | Comments are closed
Continental intellectuals see analytical thinking as something to be endured, but certainly not courted! September 2nd, 2002 | Comments are closed
No matter how one measures welfare, there’s more of it where governments refrain from causing poverty by curtailing markets September 1st, 2002 | Comments are closed
A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter August 31st, 2002 | Comments are closed
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