NEGOTIATION (n.): A tactic used when the target is obscured by clouds or smoke.
– Unknown
[Given the combative posts on Samizdata over the last few days, it just seemed appropriate]
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Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all. – George Christopher Lichtenberg December 27th, 2001 | Comments are closed
 Here is yet another example of how the newsblog movement*1 has inspired media upstarts to challange established media companies all over the world. The full ‘story’ can be found here.
Objective insights, clever punditry and naked babes… the perfect admixture for the next media revolution. As Frederick Hajek would have said “There ain’t nuthin’ that leads to catallaxy more that a bodacious naked 19 years old chick dispensing profundities! Beat that, Keynes, you totally bogus ol’ fart!”. Right on, Fred baby! Gil Scott-Heron blew it big time: the revolution will indeed be televised. *1 = no, the newsblog movement is not something that happens after you take too many laxatives. December 25th, 2001 | Comments are closed
The regular Samizdata contributors are reading and listening to: Dale Amon Perry de Havilland Walter Uhlman David Carr Christopher Pellerito Natalie Solent Natalija Radic: Samizdata Illuminatus December 25th, 2001 | Comments are closed
December 25th, 2001 | Comments are closed
Whilst perusing Fevered Rants, as I am wont to do, I came upon an article relating to how NORAD helps make certain that Santa is safe when operating over North America. However, what really concerns me is that due to interference from Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson, Santa’s policy of only hiring elves from Northern Finland has been replaced with a more ‘multiculturally inclusive’ system that does not permit ‘racial profiling’. As a result many of the packages in Santa’s North Pole grotto which are destined for your home, have been packed by efreets and djinns of decidedly Middle Eastern appearance. Think about the implications of that whilst you are opening those ‘nice’ presents on Christmas day. Check the soles of those new Adidas shoes very carefully before you go jogging around the block to break them in. Merry Christmas. December 24th, 2001 | Comments are closed
December 24th, 2001 | Comments are closed
I wouldn’t recommend alcohol and drugs to anyone. But they have always worked for me. – Hunter S. Thompson December 23rd, 2001 | Comments are closed
There have been reports that casualties were suffered during the heroic rescue of Adil Farooq yesterday by members of the 22nd Samizdata Air Service (the spectacular SAS success being evidenced by Muslimpundit‘s site being updated today in spite of the efforts of the Taliban, Al Qaeda and Robert Fisk to silence it). However other reports have indicated that the casualties were in fact the result of friendly fire suffered at a debriefing in London which extended into the wee hours of the morning, at a clandestine location near Tottenham Hale. DEBKA‘s ‘military sources’ suggest that Dr. Chris Tame, the infamous and shadowy figure behind the Libertarian Alliance (the person upon whom the fictitious ‘Dr. Evil’ was in fact based), was seen in the area where the debriefing was taking place. There is speculation he may have masterminded the daring rescue. Similarly Dale Amon reported the SAS was also conducting intensive combat operations in Belfast yesterday as well. Due to the fog, the report from Northern Ireland was slightly garbled:
War is hell. December 23rd, 2001 | Comments are closed
We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules, and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists. – Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, September 13, 2001 December 22nd, 2001 | Comments are closed
The regular Samizdata contributors are reading and listening to: Dale Amon Perry de Havilland Walter Uhlman David Carr Natalie Solent Natalija Radic: Samizdata Illuminatus December 21st, 2001 | Comments are closed
The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent. – Edward Gibbon December 21st, 2001 | Comments are closed
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