In what bizarre universe is this guy ‘liberal’ while someone like me – who is strongly pro-gay marriage, pro-easy availability of pornography, against the stupid drug war, and stridently anti-authoritarian – is often described as ‘conservative’? If he’s a liberal, I’m a Prada handbag.
– Jackie Danicki
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July 5th, 2006 | 23 comments - (Comments are closed)
 I feel that the referee handled the Rooney thing badly – failing to whistle at all during the long physical assault on Rooney by three Portuguese players, then applying the law to what might have been an accidental stamp in the most draconian way. He’d also failed to give England a cast-iron penalty – but otherwise, I felt he had as good a night as might be expected in such a difficult match. – James Hamilton proving, by being just a tiny bit too rational and even-handed about it all, that he is not entirely English July 2nd, 2006 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. July 1st, 2006 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
Unknown medical receptionist, explaining to Will Luke his chances of actually finding a doctor working in his local surgery. 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)
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