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The inimitable Tom Lehrer, composer of ‘Poisoning Pigeons in the Park’ and other gems. April 23rd, 2006 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
 It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. – David Hume, one of the giants of the Scottish Enlightenment. I wonder what he would have made of our own times? April 19th, 2006 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
A government is a body of people usually notably ungoverned. – Derrial Book, the Shepard in Firefly episode War Stories April 7th, 2006 | 38 comments - (Comments are closed)
A Samizdatista, who shall remain nameless, explaining his priorities for the day. I myself have been guilty of a few slips of the tongue. Explaining my vices to an Australian blogger, I admitted that:
My doctor agrees that I should be smoking like a fish, and he has a point. Meanwhile, I will now remove my foot from my mouth. April 5th, 2006 | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)
April 3rd, 2006 | 44 comments - (Comments are closed)
18th Century statesman and essayist Edmund Burke, arguably the greatest Irishman to have ever lived. I wonder if Tony Blair or Dave Cameron have heard of him, or read him? April 1st, 2006 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
Living in Europe is nice… but one thing is tax!!!! – An unidentified Chinese woman, overheard mid conversation while apparently flirting with a German man in an expat bar in Shanghai. March 31st, 2006 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
March 29th, 2006 | 43 comments - (Comments are closed)
I have always found Scotland fascinating. They take barley and water and create something more expensive than petrol March 28th, 2006 | 59 comments - (Comments are closed)
I think that the economics profession is showing a bit more interest in entrepreneurship, at least since the 1980s. The “Austrian” school that gave us the likes of von Mises, Ludwig Lachmann and Israel Kirzner, for instance, puts the entrepreneur pretty much front and centre of the economic picture. For sheer gusto in defending the entrepreneur, there is still to this day no better advocate in my view than George Gilder. March 27th, 2006 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
Communists for free expression are like vegetarians for veal. – Perry de Havilland, at Saturday’s march for free expression in London March 27th, 2006 | 75 comments - (Comments are closed)
“You will take possession by military force, of the printing establishments of the New York World and Journal of Commerce… and prohibit any further publication thereof… you are therefore commanded forthwith to arrest and imprison… the editors, proprietors and publishers of the aforesaid newspapers” Order from Abraham Lincoln to General John Dix, May 18, 1864. March 26th, 2006 | 56 comments - (Comments are closed)
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