Monday, 16 September 2013
Sunday, 15 September 2013
Saturday, 14 September 2013
Friday, 13 September 2013
Demanding With Menaces
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.
— HL Mencken
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H. L. Mencken
Thursday, 12 September 2013
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Monday, 9 September 2013
Sunday, 8 September 2013
Saturday, 7 September 2013
Friday, 6 September 2013
Thursday, 5 September 2013
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
Groupthink
Any lie will receive almost instant corroboration, and almost instant collaboration,
if the maintenance of it results in the public enjoyment of
someone else's pain, someone else's humiliation.
— Dennis Potter (The Singing Detective)
if the maintenance of it results in the public enjoyment of
someone else's pain, someone else's humiliation.
— Dennis Potter (The Singing Detective)
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Dennis Potter
Tuesday, 3 September 2013
Monday, 2 September 2013
Sunday, 1 September 2013
Saturday, 31 August 2013
Friday, 30 August 2013
Thursday, 29 August 2013
Lots Of Fun
You are a man,
you understand.
You pick me up
and you lay me down again.
You make the rules,
you say what's fair,
It's lots of fun
to have you there.
— Neil Young
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Neil Young
Wednesday, 28 August 2013
Tuesday, 27 August 2013
Monday, 26 August 2013
Sunday, 25 August 2013
Saturday, 24 August 2013
Animal Farm
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig.
You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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George Bernard Shaw,
George Orwell
Friday, 23 August 2013
Typical Libran!
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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John Kenneth Galbraith
Thursday, 22 August 2013
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Tuesday, 20 August 2013
Monday, 19 August 2013
Sunday, 18 August 2013
One More Mystery Explained
The proportion of the population required to elect a government
is about equal to
the proportion of the population with below average intelligence.
is about equal to
the proportion of the population with below average intelligence.
Saturday, 17 August 2013
Critical Point
By all means let’s be open-minded,
but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
— Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins
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