War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
– John Stuart Mill
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August 31st, 2004 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
 If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side. August 31st, 2004 | Comments are closed
Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health, no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. August 30th, 2004 | Comments are closed
Time and time again, August 28th, 2004 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one. – H.L. Mencken Which is what is so great about blogs and the blogosphere. Got a view about something? Set up your own ‘press’ and blog it. August 26th, 2004 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
August 24th, 2004 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
God isn’t interested in technology. He knows nothing of the potential of the microchip or the silicon revolution. Look how he spends his time! Forty three species of parrot! Nipples for men! Slugs! He created slugs! They can’t hear! They can’t speak! They can’t operate machinery! I mean, are we not in the hands of a lunatic? If I were creating a world, I wouldn’t mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers, eight o’clock, Day One! August 23rd, 2004 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
Every dollar spent in a libertarian society on public goods will accomplish far more than a dollar spent by the welfare state. So even if a free society spends less money, it is far from clear that it will perform less charity. – Patri Friedman, Catallarchy August 21st, 2004 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
Yes, Fahrenhiet 9/11 is ‘patriotic art’ in the same way Leni Riefenstahl’s “Triumph of the Will” was patriotic art… and both take a similar relativist view regarding the role of reality in film making August 20th, 2004 | 44 comments - (Comments are closed)
I have always suspected the notion blogging will lead us into a wonderful future of ‘participatory democracy’ was one of those ideas which withers away to nothing under closer scrutiny. Sure, we can ‘fact check the asses’ (as Ken Layne put it) of the established political/media classes but that only makes us bloggers ‘participants’ in the sense that calling the cops when the party next door is making too much noise makes you a ‘participant’ in the next door’s party. August 19th, 2004 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
August 18th, 2004 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
We consider this our duty – to defend humanity against the scourge of intolerance, violence, and fanaticism. August 15th, 2004 | Comments are closed
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