Not the official QOTD, but pretty great anyway:
“If prices are information, then subsidies are censorship.”
– Russ Nelson
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If you want to introduce someone to libertarian thinking, encourage them to try this experiment. Spend a few days reading nothing but technology news. Then spend a few days reading nothing but political news. For the first few days they’ll see an exciting world of innovation and creativity where everything is getting better all the time. In the second period they’ll see a miserable world of cynicism and treachery where everything is falling apart. Then ask them to explain the difference. – Andrew Zalotocky, commenting on this, here, about #HackedOff, many weeks ago. I had this all ready to be an SQotD right after it first got said, but then another SQotD happened, and I forgot about it. Today, I chanced upon it again. May 4th, 2013 | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)
 We appear to find ourselves in something of a Catch 22 situation. Nobody will invest in the new generating capacity that the government wants because nobody believes that the government policy of institutionalised insanity will last – taxpayers will not bear the kind of price rises that Davey wants to impose on everyone. But while the government is insisting that insanity is the way forward, nobody is going to invest in the UK energy industry at all. – Here. From one of a number of recent Bishop Hill postings on the insanity of UK energy policy. May 3rd, 2013 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
To the political class, whatever the rhetoric, government programs aren’t tools for improving the country. They’re tools for acquiring the main goal of the political class: more power… – Glen Reynolds (All hail to the Blogfather… PBUHH) in USA Today – April 29, 2013 May 1st, 2013 | 19 comments - (Comments are closed)
…given there is a cross-party consensus that energy rationing is good for growth. – Samizdata commenter Kevin B. April 30th, 2013 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
Dave is going to wake up one morning and find that the Conservative Party website, and any other right-of-centre source of information, is going to be shut away behind an “Over-18” “hate-and-porn” firewall and he will be too stupid to work out what happened. – Samizdata commenter Rob April 26th, 2013 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
“If, as I believe, the distinctive distance from our organic nature, we should rejoice in the expression of changing human possibility in ever-advancing technology. After all, the organic world is one in which life is nasty, brutish and short and dominated by experiences that are inhumanly unpleasant. Human technology is less alien to us than nature (compare bitter cold with central heating; being lost without GPS and being found with it; dying of parasitic infestation versus vermicides or spraying with pesticides) and the material of that part of nature that we are: our inhuman, or at least impersonal bodies. Anyone who considers the new technologies as inhuman, or a threat to our humanity, should consider this. Better still, they should spend five uninterrupted minutes imagining the impact of a major stroke, severe Parkinson’s disease or Alzheimer’s disease on their ability to express their humanity…..Self transformation is the essence of humanity and our humanity is defined by our ever-widening distance from the material and organic world of which we are a part and from which we are apart.” – Raymond Tallis. In Defence of Wonder, page 200. April 25th, 2013 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
“But the only job that someone like Antony Flew would get in a mainstream university today is cleaning the toilets”. If that is true – then cleaning the toilets is the only job worth having. – Paul Marks April 25th, 2013 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
Taking offence cannot be equated to being criminally victimised. – “Cannot” as in: “should not”. Sadly, they just did. That’s Richard Carey, writing at Libertarian Home about the disappearance of the blog and twitter feed of Old Holborn, and other twitter accounts, for the crime of being “inappropriate and offensive”. April 23rd, 2013 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
[W]hen you pull a gun the implication is that you will use it. All subsequent actions proceed on that basis. When you raise your interactions to that level here in Wisconsin you should bear in mind that Wisconsin is a concealed carry state. You better be prepared to play for the stakes you wager. – Samizdatista Midwesterner, discussing the implications of coercing people into ‘doing the right thing‘ with threats. April 20th, 2013 | 29 comments - (Comments are closed)
April 18th, 2013 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
I have been interested in Frank Turner, who is a popular singer, ever since he performed at the London Olympics opening ceremony, and a Labour MP got angry about that:
Oh dear. Not allowed. Can’t be a popular pop singer and even think things like that, let alone say them. And just now, things on the Frank Turner front are getting rather interesting. NME have done an intereview with him. The NME website reports:
If that had been the only Frank Turner quote in this report worth requoting, that would have been today’s SQotD. But there is more. Turner also spoke about that Guardian piece (here‘s the link again):
Today, I intend to be doing exactly that. April 18th, 2013 | 21 comments - (Comments are closed)
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