Long, excellent post from Edmund Standing begins: The white liberal is an unhealthy type of creature that you will undoubtedly have encountered, if not in real life, certainly via the media. By ‘liberal’, I do not mean simply someone who … Continue reading
Someone called Mark S. Price has filed a patent (pdf) application in the USA for an anti-suicide bomber device. Here’s the suggested warning notice: WARNING DETONATION OF EXPOSIVE IS GREATLY DISCOURAGED PORCINE CONTENTS- PORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the … Continue reading
This time on a national scale (pdf). Abstract—We’re about to acquire a significant new cyber-vulnerability. The world’s energy utilities are starting to install hundreds of millions of ‘smart meters’ which contain a remote off switch. Its main purpose is to … Continue reading
I don’t share the outrage at the decision not to prosecute the police officer who killed Ian Tomlinson. Henry Porter says: The public needs to see justice done. Instead the DPP’s decision sends a message that the police are immune … Continue reading
From TED. Our ancestors must have been very like these creatures. I hadn’t realised how well they can understand full spoken sentences. They have also learned to write in a symbolic script. There is surely a moral duty for us … Continue reading
I’m not surprised that Jon Venables’s brain has got a bit mis-wired. Imprisoned at 10 years of age, to spend puberty and adolescence separated from the opposite sex, and with the knowledge and memory of his murder of a very … Continue reading
Over at ChinaSMACK. The image to caption? Ah yes. The image. Um… Well, here’s a preview: I’m not sure what the girl on the right’s expression is supposed to denote, but she needs to be careful with that cigarette.
Interesting read from esr: One very notable pathology is a form of argument that, reduced to essence, runs like this: “Your refusal to acknowledge that you are guilty of {sin,racism,sexism, homophobia,oppression…} confirms that you are guilty of {sin,racism,sexism, homophobia,oppression…}.” I’ve … Continue reading
I keep seeing examples of Thatcher Derangement Syndrome, they’re so common that it’s hardly worth linking to make the point. Here’s one from Clive Aslet that I saw on Tim’s blog: It is partly the rise of selfish individualism, at … Continue reading
Thanks, Kate.