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Paul Ehrlich had written in The Population Bomb (1968) that it was “a fantasy” that India would “ever” feed itself. By 1974 India was self-sufficient in the production of all cereals. –Gregg Easterbrook, in a 1997 profile of Green Revolution hero Norman Borlaug in the Atlantic Monthly. (Go read the whole article. It’s good). (Link via Instapundit). March 25th, 2004 | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)
 To say that legislation can bring about an end to child labor is akin to saying that someone’s fever could be cured by dousing his thermometer in ice. March 23rd, 2004 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
I should have gone on hunger strike for longer than 44 days: then the bill would have been less. – Former prisoner Vincent Hickey, on the Home Office’s bizarre attempts to charge him for board and food for the time he spent imprisoned for a murder he did not commit. March 17th, 2004 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
Kids in Lee county, Florida are being thumb printed every time they get on or off a school bus. Yes, you read that right, thumb printed, in the name of safety. Could somebody please explain to me how thumb printing a kid when they get on or off a school bus increases their safety by one iota? Is there any stupid idea that someone, somewhere won’t try and implement in the name of almighty safety? Good lord, this just boggles my mind! And what’s really sad is that these kids are going to grow up with this, never knowing a time when you didn’t just present your thumb print or any other identifying feature whenever asked. They’ll be used to constantly being surveilled and tracked, their lives fed into a computer and analyzed — all for their own good, of course. They’ll also never know a time when they didn’t have to watch anything they did or said because ears are everywhere and there is always some dipstick with a moronic zero-tolerance (zero-thought, more like) policy ready to toss you out on your ear should you say or do the slightest thing they might not like. I read these stories, I wonder what kind of generation is being raised under these ludicrous “safety” rules, and I despair. – Myria of It Can’t Rain All The Time March 15th, 2004 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
March 13th, 2004 | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)
..members of the elite Special Air Service (SAS) were exposed to lead, teargas and explosions in training, and experienced high levels of physical trauma and stress. – An Australian government report investigating the training of the SAS regiment, as reported in an Australian newspaper. (Well done to the guys who figured that out. Who could possibly have imagined that being in the SAS would involve stress and danger?) (link via Geoff Honnor). March 11th, 2004 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
I frikkin’ met an Ayatollah! a real life Ayatollah, I watched him eat a banana and then he put his hands on my shoulder and prayed that I get married soon, my mom was beside herself with joy and I just couldn’t stop laughing.
March 10th, 2004 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
That’s my basic rule: whatever the problem, the government’s a bigger one March 9th, 2004 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
The Americans will always do the right thing…after they’ve exhausted all the alternatives. March 5th, 2004 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises. March 1st, 2004 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
VC readers will know I am skeptical of many government interventions. But I view asteroid protection as a genuine public good. Budget deficit or not, we are not spending enough money to address this problem. February 26th, 2004 | 25 comments - (Comments are closed)
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence – it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearsome master February 22nd, 2004 | Comments are closed
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