If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.
– attributed to Margaret Thatcher
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“No gentleman goes to a lady’s house if he is affected by alcohol. A gentleman seeing a young man who is not entirely himself in the presence of ladies, quietly induces the youth to depart. An older man addicted to the use of too much alcohol, need not be discussed, since he ceases to be asked to the houses of ladies.” – From the “Fundamentals of Good Behaviour”, published here, and thanks to Timothy Sandefur for the pointer. July 22nd, 2010 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
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Oh, and anyone in the government opposing [calls for Islamic dress for women to be banned in Britain] is to be conditionally applauded… …they are right to reject this vile authoritarian notion… …but if they opposite it because “Islamic dress is ok” then they are a horse’s arse and need to called that. A burqua or any item of islamic dress for women is as “ok” as a Nazi arm band… and people’s ability to wear Nazi arm bands also should not be banned, but they sure as hell should not be applauded. – Perry de Havilland July 20th, 2010 | 25 comments - (Comments are closed)
So we live in a society where head teachers make kids wear goggles to play conkers and policemen are forbidden from rescuing drowning people on health and safety grounds… and then they make you drive at 70mph in pitch darkness to save the polar bears? – Mr Eugenides is not a happy baby concerning the latest environmentally motivated imposition. July 19th, 2010 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
The Ministry of Defence employs 29,000 people in its procurement branch. Its equivalent in a country under actual military threat, Israel, employs a reported 400. Few would say that Britain’s Armed Forces were better equipped than Israel’s. July 18th, 2010 | 20 comments - (Comments are closed)
One of the biggest eye-openers you can have is seeing a story in the press which you have personal knowledge of… Of course, it could be that you just got unlucky and that all the other stories out there are 100% bang on, deadly accurate. But that seems rather unlikely, doesn’t it? – 6000 ruminates on false media prophesies of doom regarding the organisation of the soccer World Cup in his native South Africa. July 17th, 2010 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
“A boundless, millennial promise made with boundless, prophet-like conviction to a number of rootless and desperate men in the midst of a society where traditional norms and relationships are disintegrating – here, it would seem, lay the source of that subterranean medieval fanaticism which has been studied in this book. It may be suggested here, too, lies the source of the giant fanaticisms which in our day have convulsed the world.” – Norman Cohn, The Pursuit of the Millenium, page 288. This is a classic study of the revolutionary, religious groups and mystics of the Middle Ages. Cohn, famously – and much to the anger of the Left in the late 1960s – pointed out certain ominous parallels. I could even go so far as to suggest that the more extreme parts of the Green movement could be also viewed in a similar light. The desire for a purer, perfect world free of Sin, pollution or material wealth are themes that sound remarkably similar. July 16th, 2010 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
Subtracting time needed to get to the area, at 146,000 barrels per day that translates into 9 million barrels that could have been processed since the initial offer was made by the Dutch. – a commenter here called ‘Willab’ remarking on the belated US decision to accept Dutch assistance in dealing with the BP oil spill. July 15th, 2010 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. – Alvin Toffler July 13th, 2010 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
Readers may find it odd that students are being encouraged to express solidarity with totalitarian terrorist movements that set booby traps in schools and boast of using children as human shields, and whose stated goals include the Islamic “conquest” of the free world, the “obliteration” of Israel and the annihilation of the Jewish people. However, such statements achieve a facsimile of sense if one understands that the object is to be both politically radical and morally unobvious. – David Thompson ruminates on the perverse intellectual incentives that face academics July 12th, 2010 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
“Those who justify the need for greenhouse gas reductions by exploiting the mounting human and economic toll of natural disasters worldwide are either ill informed or dishonest…Prescribing emission reductions to forestall the future effects of disasters is like telling someone who is sedentary, obese and alcoholic that the best way to improve his health is to wear a seatbelt.” – Sarawitz, D., & Pielke, R.A, (2005 January 17). “Rising tide, The New Republic, 10.” Quoted in Cool It, by Bjorn Lomborg, page 108. I guess after a harsh winter, the AGW alarmists must be breathing a sigh of relief now that we are having a nice summer. July 9th, 2010 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
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