Samizdata.netA blog for people with a critically rational individualist perspective. We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future.Happy Birthday, USA- July 4, 2008 "When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." "We hold these truths...http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2008/07/happy_birthday_2.html Did anybody watch ABC World News tonight, July 3rd- July 4, 2008 The reason I ask is that I was half listening and I heard a really good and rather funny quote go by. I stopped what I was doing and typed as much of it into the computer as I could remember. Then I went to the ABC News website and replayed the story. The quote was either removed from the story or I am confusing two similar stories on the same night. That is why...http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2008/07/did_anybody_wat.html 60 years too many- July 3, 2008 Last night, flicking through the TV channels after watching Andy Murray get pulverised by Nadal, the muscle-bound Spaniard, in the tennis, I watched in bemused fascination as ITV and the BBC both devoted quite a lot of air time to celebrating - that word was used repeatedly - the 60th anniversary of the National Health Service. There has even been a church service, attended by Prince Charles and the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, to mark...http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2008/07/60_years_too_ma.html Self-sufficiency or solipsism- July 2, 2008 The Duchy of Cornwall proudly announces that the Prince of Wales's old Aston Martin has been converted to run on bio-ethanol - which is sourced as surplus wine from one of his Wiltshire estates. Which is fine by me. If a very rich man wishes to spend his own money in mildly strange ways, and is not really hurting anyone, then who am I to complain (I personally benefit from the other-wordly advantages of living...http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2008/07/selfsufficiency.html |