You can come back tomorrow. We should have a doctor then.
Unknown medical receptionist, explaining to Will Luke his chances of actually finding a doctor working in his local surgery.
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June 29th, 2006 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
 June 28th, 2006 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
So I need to try hard to make this particular grammatical error far fewer often. I must write “less” on less occasions, and “fewer” fewer infrequently. It’s the fewest I can do. But realising precisely when to use “less” and when to use “fewer” remains fewer than obvious to me. Personally I blame my primary school teachers. If they’d wasted fewer time teaching me gorgeous italic handwriting (which is fewer than usefewer in this digital age) then I might have picked up more of the key rules of grammar instead. But one can’t improve one’s English unfewer one’s mistakes are identified. That’s why I’ve been much too carefewer on countfewer occasions in the past. Sorry, it’s all been mindfewer thoughtfewerness on my part. Bfewer you all for pointing out my linguistic reckfewerness. I recognise now that my writing has been fewer than perfect, and I’ve learnt my feweron. But don’t expect less mistakes overnight. Quite frankly I still couldn’t care fewer. June 27th, 2006 | 19 comments - (Comments are closed)
I have little direct evidence about the atrocities in the Spanish civil war. I know that some were committed by the Republicans, and far more (they are still continuing) by the Fascists. But what impressed me then, and has impressed me ever since, is that atrocities are believed in or disbelieved in solely on grounds of political predilection. Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence. June 23rd, 2006 | 19 comments - (Comments are closed)
The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated; it is an indirect rational argument. – Milton Friedman (via Ilana Mercer) June 21st, 2006 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
I am not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. June 20th, 2006 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
It is my understanding that, in law, First Amendment issues are decided with a preference for the least restrictive alternative. In this context, the PMRC’s demands are the equivalent of treating dandruff by decapitation – Frank Zappa discussing the Parents Music Resource Center, a pro-censorship group lead by Al Gore’s wife, Tipper Gore June 17th, 2006 | 20 comments - (Comments are closed)
In every language, the first word after “Mama!” that every kid learns to say is “Mine!” A system that doesn’t allow ownership, that doesn’t allow you to say “Mine!” when you grow up, has, to put it mildly, a fatal design flaw. June 16th, 2006 | 27 comments - (Comments are closed)
– Christopher Buckley, interviewed in the Sunday Times Magazine He’s talking about the US; but there are some discomfortingly morally aggressive Christians in charge on this side of the pond, too. June 13th, 2006 | 42 comments - (Comments are closed)
Zarqawi – dead – Commenter David Davies (no, presumably not that David Davies) June 8th, 2006 | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)
“We need Crossrail to keep London’s Economy ticking over so that we can continue to pay for the Scottish to live the lifestyle to which they are accustomed.” – Ken Livingstone (via Guido Fawkes) June 6th, 2006 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound. (hat-tip to commenter Marcy Quice) June 1st, 2006 | 23 comments - (Comments are closed)
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