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 has a generally liberal outlook, in the sense of a ‘live and let [...]
Archive for July, 2010
White liberal racism
30 Jul 2010 at 13:19
Peter Risdon
Derangement Syndromes, Liberalism, Politics, religion, totalitarianism
Patent news
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 frangible glass amulet
affixed to this Shield contains a significant quantity of pig’s blood in a
liquid state. It has been [...]
Darwin Award
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 ensure that customers who default on their payments can be switched remotely to a prepay tariff; [...]
Tomlinson and police misconduct
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 from prosecution
The police didn’t need the DPP to send that message. They already knew. I’m not [...]
Bonobo intelligence
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 to leave their habitat alone and allow them to develop unhindered. And medical experimentation on [...]
Aftercare
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 small child forever in his consciousness.
Maybe he should have stayed behind bars for the rest [...]
Caption competition
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.
Kafkatrapping
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 been presented with enough instances of this recently that I’ve [...]
Yuppies, juppies, guppies and Thatcher
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 the expense of the shared values of restraint. The Sixties had [...]