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

The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle, anywhere, anytime, and with utter recklessness.
– Robert A. Heinlein

Samizdata slogan of the day

That government being instituted for the common benefit, the doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
– Article I Section 2 of the Constitution of Tennessee

Samizdata slogan of the day

Amongst other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
– Nicolo Machiavelli

Samizdata slogan of the day

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
– Benjamin Franklin

Or: We must preserve our freedoms or the bad guys win.
– P.J. Connolly, InfoWorld Magazine

Samizdata slogan of the day

The Moving Finger blogs; and, having blogged,
Moves on: fortunately my Piety and Wit
Can lure it back to cancel half a Line,
and all my Tears wash out a Word of it
Thank goodness for delete functions
-The Rubaiyat of Samizdata Illuminatus

Samizdata slogan of the day

Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow…
– Ludwig von Mises

Samizdata slogan of the day

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away
-Phillip K. Dick

Samizdata slogan of the day

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
– Benjamin Franklin, 1759

The exquisite arm of the law

Ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is a happy puppy. The new Miss Universe is Oxana Fedorova, a policewoman from St.Petersburg in Russia… now I am off to that historic city to see if I can get arrested.

 

Samizdata slogan of the day

I’ve worked out a use for Stephen Byers. If you take the intellectual rigour of John Major, the financial probity of the late Robert Maxwell, the sense of public service of Neil Hamilton and the integrity of Stephen Byers, you get… President Jacques Chirac!
– Antoine Clarke

Samizdata slogan of the day

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.
-Mark Twain

The Cannes Film Festival

Sharon Stone is looking pretty damn good for someone recovering from a stroke!

And what is this nonsense about the self styled ‘American Jewish Congress’ urging Jews to boycott the Cannes Film Festival because ‘the French are anti-Semitic’? And which ‘French’ would that be? The 80% who did not vote for Le Pen? Spare us the collectivist crap, guys… I do not see why a foreign Jewish organisation should feel the need to provide the neo-Nazi barking moonbats in France with an excuse to say ‘See? Those mean old Jews are boycotting all of France!’ Duh.

In the linked article, it also says ‘satirist Michael Moore’ is making a documentary about the Columbine school massacre. But satire requires wit and insight, so I guess there must be more than one Michael Moore because the only one I know of is a talentless ignorant prick, not a satirist.