Why I wuvs capitalism, part Umpteen Hundred and Two.
No. 6: Bach on a Japanese forest xylophone. It’s actually a mobile phone advert.
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There is an article on the Grauniad site called ‘Men – if you’re not a feminist, it’s fine, just move on’ which was rather amusing. My position is no one, male or female, should have any statutory right to maternity or paternity leave, and indeed an employee should not expect it unless they negotiated for that with their employer. So it seems that as I favour equality in maternity and paternity leave, I am a feminist according to some commenters! Who knew? 😉 January 9th, 2014 | 34 comments - (Comments are closed)
 People in Shaoshan in China, the birthplace of Chairman Mao, are making good money selling keepsakes of history’s most prolific mass murderer. I find it odd that the BBC reporter doing a little video on that somehow neglected to ask “why are you selling souvenirs of a man responsible for murdering tens of millions of your fellow Chinese people?” Actually I think we all know why that question never got asked. Clearly Braunau am Inn in Austria is missing a trick. December 23rd, 2013 | 27 comments - (Comments are closed)
From the world of Star Wars. Maybe Samizdata’s own Paul Marks could get one and send a death ray in the general direction of the Economist. November 6th, 2013 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
Sunday night strangeness: why does an academic book about fruit flies cost $23,698,655.93 on Amazon?Michael Eisen is a biologist, who studies the fruit fly drosophila with especial interest as nearly all biologists appear to do for some reason some of our learned readers will, I hope, explain to me. In his own words,
And the price was rising steeply almost as he watched. Why? I had often wondered this myself. Not that the development of the fruit fly has generally been my first choice for a riveting read, but I did once come gulpingly close to pressing the “Buy now with 1-Click” button for Connie Long’s Easy Guide to Sewing Linings before noticing just in time that it was going for more than two hundred pounds. It is now down to a mere £86 new / £44 used. I was kind of hoping for under £10. I am an idle waster who noted the strangeness and passed on; Doctor Eisen is a research scientist. He duly researched and explained all. November 3rd, 2013 | 22 comments - (Comments are closed)
The bloke who posted this describes it as,’The same scene everyone knows, except it is from a film called “Hitler: The Last Ten Days” starring Alec Guinness.’ Presumably both this film and Der Untergang followed Traudl Junge’s diaries quite closely for this scene. October 26th, 2013 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
We are the ones, we militants without a strategy of emancipation, who are (and who have been for some time now) the real aphasics! And it is not the sympathetic and unavoidable language of movementist democracy that will save us. – Professor Alain Badiou, in an article arguing that “We need to rediscover the language of Communism.” October 3rd, 2013 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
The odds of people dying in a terrorist attack obviously are still a lot lower than in a car accident, unfortunately. – President of the USA Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, speaking on the Jay Leno show August 8th, 2013 | 26 comments - (Comments are closed)
Guy Lodge and Jessica Asato looked ahead ten years, ten years ago.
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That last line might yet prove to be a quite good prediction. In 2003 Guy Lodge was Chair of the Young Fabians and Jessica Asato was a researcher at the Social Market Foundation. Nowadays Guy Lodge is Associate Director for Politics and Power at the IPPR thinktank and Jessica Asato is prospective Parliamentary candidate for Norwich North and political adviser to Tessa Jowell MP. July 17th, 2013 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
Finally! A politician I have no hesitation endorsing and who, if I lived there, I would actually vote for! – Perry de Havilland at a June 19th, 2013 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
Prize-winning author Alice Walker gives support to David Icke on Desert Island Discs. Not a headline you see very often. For those that don’t know, Alice Walker is a “an American author, poet, womanist, and activist”, Desert Island Discs is a long-running BBC radio programme in which celebrities say which eight records (look it up) they would take with them to a desert island (I suppose the gramophone must be one of those wind-up ones), and David Icke is a former Green Party spokesman who believes that, among others, the Queen, President George H. W. Bush, President George W. Bush, Al Gore and Boxcar Willie are really twelve-foot alien lizards. May 23rd, 2013 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
An unexpected pleasure, leftists chocking at the sight of people celebrating Margaret Thatcher, has just got even better. The Daily Mail informs us that the “Thatcher haircut” is the rage in central London, with one salon claiming to be overwhelmed by demand.
April 29th, 2013 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
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