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]
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Also we have seem some previously unknown search engines… some of these are definitely ‘things that make you go hmmm.’
Via Google: Kunduz+rescue+pakistan+helicopter+brigadiers
Via Buscador.Lycos: sinister+creative+killing
Via Lycos: Cicero+economics
Via Lycos: oppressive+governments
Via Google: Bond+supervillain+bin+Laden
Via Sidesearch: american+indian+beliefs
Via Tsunamisearch: kylie+minogue+fake
Via Tsunamisearch: kylie+minogue+naked
Via Whatuseek.com: public+rationality
Via Google: al+qaeda+airlifted+antonov+afghanistan
Via Tsunamisearch: jeri+ryan+porn
Via Brisbane.t-online: England+porn
Via Google: sig+239+vs.+sig+229
Via Google: Bennett+Anglosphere
Via Google: fortune+born+on+22January+astrology
Via Alltheweb: Arabic+bikini
Via Alltheweb: Poland+citizenship+request
Via Redesearch: libertarians+and+greens
Via Search.kvasir: ladies+spanking
The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with
– Marty Feldman
Over on the exquisitely named Insolvent Republic of Blogistan, there is a brief round up of who participated in the dog pile on Mr. Raimondo following his much responded to sortie into hostile territory.
Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.
– Ayn Rand
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.
Comin’ down the world turns over
And angels fall without you there
And I go on as you grow colder
All because I’m…
Comin’ down the years turn over
And angels fall without you there
And I’ll go on to bring you home
All because I’m…
All because I’m…
I’ll become what you became to me
Someone broke my heart tonight.
The whole principle is wrong; it’s like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can’t eat steak.
– Robert A. Heinlein on censorship
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right
– Winston S. Churchill
Some strange (and over optimistic) search engine hit on the Samizdata over the last week:
via Google: conspiracy+code+illuminatus
via Lycos: naked+Claudia+Christian
via Google: cat+sex+libertarian
via Yahoo: balkan+murder
via Lycos: Natalija+Radic+naked
via Yahoo: hawala+tax+computer
via Google: London+prostitution
via Yahoo: guns+wild+Italian
via Yahoo: cypherpunk+libertarian
via Yahoo: elephant+economics
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
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’.
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!
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered
– Winston S. Churchill
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Who Are We? The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.
We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
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