In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority
– Edmund Burke
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April 28th, 2012 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
 Politicians can’t reform Social Security because they can’t talk about it honestly, and they can’t talk about it honestly because the median voter doesn’t want to admit a basic fact: Grandpa is an embezzler. April 25th, 2012 | 20 comments - (Comments are closed)
Unlike terrestrial radio transmissions, satellite transmissions come from a point source in the sky. One must point their antenna in the right direction to receive such signals. Different people may launch satellites in different positions and broadcast without interference. The case for licensing radio spectrum is already weak. There can be no argument for the need for a third party to license satellite radio spectrum. In satellite television, the satellites are privately owned and launched by private space vehicles. And yet in the UK one needs a broadcasting license from Ofcom to squirt photons encoded with television signals towards the Earth from space. In addition, Ofcom gets to decide who is “fit and proper” to hold such a license. There is no definition of “fit and proper”. This is the rule of the whim of bureaucrats. March 27th, 2012 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
March 18th, 2012 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
This is good, because it shows how reasonable most people consider their government’s existence and demands to be – and because it shows how misled those people are. (I have put this under the Humour category, but I find it rather depressing. Those who can be emotionally detached about these things may laugh, though.)
Video via Richard Nikoley March 9th, 2012 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
The current U K problem seems to be that despite the growing conflicts there of principles with interests, there is no “grass roots” movement nor electorate concerns that no election party is strong enough to represent principles. – Redoubtable commenter RRS March 8th, 2012 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
I found myself entranced last week by a collection of art at The Gershwin Hotel in New York. Entitled Welcome to the Panopticon, the exhibition of paintings focuses on the capture of our daily lives, and reflects on the impact of surveillance. The artist, Wayne Toepp, writes of the work on his own website:
Click thumbnail to view larger version It is refreshing to see modern art that is not simply an exercise in provoking for the sake of it, or trying to elevate offense to an art of its own, but displaying a surreal sort of beauty while leading the viewer to think and feel about something that matters. See more in Wayne Toepp’s portfolio. February 20th, 2012 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
Who forms criminal associations? You see them formed by bankers, politicians, judges, and maybe, sometimes… by thugs. – Beppe Grillo, Italian blogger and comedian February 19th, 2012 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
What is the difference between a landed family’s trust fund and a dole recipient’s benefits? I’ll tell you: One of them is an income derived from a piece of territorial property, assigned by accident of birth, originally acquired by forcefully expropriating the previous owners but now generally regarded as legitimate and which is only paid by people who choose to occupy the estate in question instead of living somewhere else… …and the other one is a landed family’s trust fund. – Typographically challenged commenter ‘fjfjfj’ February 14th, 2012 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years – Lysander Spooner February 5th, 2012 | 27 comments - (Comments are closed)
Hartnett wants the citizenry to stop giving cash to their cleaners, gardeners, and to small tradesmen and other potential tax cheats and economic criminals so that they can no longer avoid paying taxes. Hartnett’s vision of Britain is a society of snoops and denunciators. “Households have a duty to ensure that other people do not evade paying their share of tax. The people who are worried about it should use our whistle-blowing line to tell us. We are getting better and better at finding people who receive cash.” Nice touch. A tinge of the former GDR’s Stasi culture for the British way of life? January 30th, 2012 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
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