Tabloids don’t sell movies or help anyone’s career. If that were true, every Lindsay Lohan movie would open to 80 million dollars.
– Cameron Diaz, putting the much vaunted ‘power of the media’ into perspective.
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The corporate State considers that private enterprise in the sphere of production is the most effective and useful instrument in the interest of the nation. In view of the fact that private organization of production is a function of national concern, the organizer of the enterprise is responsible to the State for the direction given to production. State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management. – Benito Mussolini, 1935, Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions, Rome: ‘Ardita’ Publishers. (pp. 135-136) August 15th, 2007 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
 The simple fact is that advertising doesn’t compel anyone to buy a product. At best, it can create some warm and fuzzy associations. A person can act on those random impulses — or he can choose to think about his purchases. It’s wholly up to him. Diana Hsieh, stating what ought to be bleedin’ obvious as we Brits say. But good on her for saying it anyway. August 13th, 2007 | 31 comments - (Comments are closed)
Liberty’s too precious a thing to be buried in books. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day and say: I’m free to think and to speak. – Actor Jimmy Stewart August 4th, 2007 | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)
We should really ban oxygen as well: bullies use that also. That would take care of the problem, right and proper. – Greg Lorriman, Leatherhead, UK, a commenter on a Times (of London) article about the supposed terrors of bullying via such sites as YouTube. Amazing what people find to get alarmed about, isn’t it? August 1st, 2007 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
“One finds that time just disappears from the Wheeler-DeWitt equation,” says Carlo Rovelli, a physicist at the University of the Mediterranean in Marseille, France. “It is an issue that many theorists have puzzled about. It may be that the best way to think about quantum reality is to give up the notion of time – that the fundamental description of the universe must be timeless.” – Carlo Rovelli. Remember this next time you turn up late for an appointment. July 29th, 2007 | 48 comments - (Comments are closed)
Moreover, American Idol is a rebuke to those silly “crunchy conservatives” who insist that modern technology and mass production denigrates community, and so forth – in T.S. Eliot’s idiotic words, “The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.” But that’s not true! The community has all joined in on this wholesome, fun, harmless moment to celebrate opportunity, singing, and lightheartedness. What could be more American than that? Lightheartedness is, I think, a profound and incredibly rare value, and one which our country has figured out how to mass produce. That may be among its greatest accomplishments ever. – Timothy Sandefur, US blogger. July 28th, 2007 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. – Thomas Jefferson July 26th, 2007 | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)
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There is one thing more wicked in the world than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey. – W.K. Clifford (1845 – 1879) July 24th, 2007 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another. – George Carlin, US comedian. July 22nd, 2007 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It’s something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town. Steve Martin. (My favourite Martin film is Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, with Michael Caine.) July 18th, 2007 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
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