We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.

Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]

Weird things I see on the Internet

I smell blood so i lie and smear chocolate lather on your bare butt after drunks lick a frantic puppy’s bitter, delicate love leg but i say he would use weak honey spray as purple breast wax & drive a smooth finger from my sausage to get juice with enormous power with a delirious boy lusting mad feet sweat through thousands of rusty and elaborate meat gardens yet easy you chant only ugly behind raw produce in their beauty ships so why not sit your shiny white apperatus and crush the tiny hairy symphony of void summer death petalness and shake your luscious tongue you repulsive mother of true peach fluff who said the milk never worshiped the pink rock as i did and my fiddle is singing to drool.

Samizdata slogan of the day

Blogs cannot change the way newspapers are written, but they can change the way people read them

The World’s Most Direct Political Quiz

An armed individual who just wishes to be left the hell alone will last
longest under which system?

a. Communism

b. A corrupt Democracy that is racing to embrace Fascism

c. Anarchy

Samizdata slogan of the day

Where liberty is, there is my country
– Benjamin Franklin

Samizdata quote of the day

I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

Samizdata quote of the day

They’re against NATO? What are they for? Soviet troops racing across Europe, eating all the croissants?

– US Naval Officer Fred Boynton (played by Chris Eigeman), in Whit Stillman’s Barcelona, a film that appears wiser by the day.

Samizdata quote of the day

“Many of you are well enough off that… the tax cuts may have helped you. We’re saying that for America to get back on track, we’re probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”

Hillary Clinton, at a San Francisco fundraiser for fellow statist Sen. Boxer.

Samizdata quote of the day

One last thought: Fahrenheit 9/11 is many things, but for pity’s sake let’s not call it a documentary.
– Ty Burr, Boston Globe

Samizdata quote of the day

Indeed, according to this survey, Ronald McDonald House is twice as trusted as Amnesty International and more than twice as trusted as the Australian Conservation Foundation and Greenpeace.
– The Australian news site Crikey.com.au, reporting on a survey of Australian opinions on the trustworthiness of various charities that was conducted by the Australian edition of Reader’s Digest.

Samizdata slogan of the day

Those who follow its coverage know that BBC “impartiality” usually means not favoring Hamas over Islamic Jihad.
– CAMERA (Committe for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) reporting that the BBC’s correspondent in Gaza reportedly declared at a recent Hamas event that reporters and the media are “waging the campaign [against Israel] shoulder-to-shoulder together with the Palestinian people.”

via Instapudit and Free Will.

Samizdata quote of the day

“Well, maybe he was a lot smarter than most people thought.”

George P. Shultz, in his introduction to Reagan In His Own Hand

Samizdata quote of the day II & III

Even our dogs and cats are fat … and it’s not because they’re watching too much advertising.”

and

There’s lots of things government can do, but I don’t think government can prevent children from nagging their parents.
-Timothy Muris, head of the US Federal Trade Commission