I must confess the the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occured to him.
-Terry Pratchett [Lord Vetinari is the rather Machiavellian ruler of the fictional city in Pratchett’s books]
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November 7th, 2002 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
 They think they want good government and justice for all, Vimes, yet what is it they really crave, deep in their hearts? Only that things go on as normal and tomorrow is pretty much like today. November 6th, 2002 | Comments are closed
The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. November 5th, 2002 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
In a real democracy, the relationship between the media and the governing elite is that of a pack of rottweilers maintaining surveillance on a gang of burglars. In Scotland, it more closely resembles the relationship between the Brigade of Guards and the sovereign.
November 4th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. November 3rd, 2002 | Comments are closed
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder November 2nd, 2002 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul November 1st, 2002 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
November 1st, 2002 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles. October 26th, 2002 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
The world knows it as Silicon Valley, a name coined in 1971 by the editor of a microelectronics newsletter; but on the Rand McNally Atlas it is the Santa Clara Valley, a 40-mile by 10-mile strip running from Palo Alto to the southern suburbs of San Jose, at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay Area. It constitutes just over one-third of the 1312-square-mile Santa Clara County. In 1950 it was the prune capital of America.
October 25th, 2002 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
Thank God Stalin antedated Photoshop. October 24th, 2002 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
“…..in order to restore international peace and security” October 23rd, 2002 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
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