Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.
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January 17th, 2002 | Comments are closed
 In the side bar it says “lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people”… well tonight it is nothing philosphical or topical or political, it is just a song by the Goo Goo Dolls that we used to listen to.
Someone broke my heart tonight. January 17th, 2002 | Comments are closed
The whole principle is wrong; it’s like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can’t eat steak. January 16th, 2002 | Comments are closed
January 15th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Some strange (and over optimistic) search engine hit on the Samizdata over the last week: via Google: conspiracy+code+illuminatus January 14th, 2002 | Comments are closed
I must point out that my rule of life prescribes as an absolute sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be, during all meals and in the intervals between them – Winston S. Churchill, on the occasion of lunch with Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia January 14th, 2002 | Comments are closed
It seems our new ‘Havens of fluorescent idiocy’ links section is proving very popular! If we do not include all the suggested links readers have been sending in, that does not necessarily mean we do not agree that the site suggested is a pile of steaming idiocy, just that it is not quite ‘fluorescent’ enough to qualify. There are several newspapers in our ‘Dead tree compost’ links section that are extravagant producers of said ‘steaming piles’ but occasionally redeem themselves… sometimes only very occasionally. There is indeed a good reason we call that section of our links ‘compost’. January 13th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Recently razor sharp bloggista, Will Quick of DailyPundit coined the term ‘haven of fluorescent idiocy’ to perfectly describe statist/collectivist magazine New Statesman. We at Samizdata are so impressed by this term that we, in what is of course an unprovoked act of aggression, have decided to annex the term for our own use. At the very end of the ever lengthening stalactite of links in our side bar, we have a new section called Havens of fluorescent idiocy for links to places untroubled by the light of liberty, reason and rationality. In short, we are going to build up a list of sources for the many anti-idiotarian blog sites of all hues to use as a hunting ground. Our first three lucky winners are New Statesman (of course), Blowback and The Chomsky Archive… with more to come! January 13th, 2002 | Comments are closed
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered – Winston S. Churchill January 13th, 2002 | Comments are closed
January 12th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Well if the USA can have the absurdly named Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF), a conflation of things that cries out for parody (when they are not murdering Branch Davidians, that is), I suppose the E.R.A.S.M.U.S. cannot be far from being established (European Rapid Action Sauce Monitoring Uniformed Service). Such a police service is surely needed to protect us from unscrupulous vegetable merchants, as demonstrated by this Times article Brussels can like it or lump it on sauce. Samizdata reader Scott Flatman has seen the future:
January 11th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Scott Cattanach writes in regarding the remark by European Commission Romano Prodi that membership in the Eurozone is a “definitive marriage” and “You cannot leave the Eurozone once you’re in”.
Quite so, that does seem to be what they think. January 11th, 2002 | Comments are closed
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