There are three kinds of lies. Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
There are three kinds of fools. Fools, bloody fools, and the politically correct (Atlas Shrugs, via Al Jahom).
Inspector Tom Galbraith, of Lothian and Borders Police’s diversity unit… said, “It is not about treating everybody the same. If I have a young Asian man who has [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Radicalised
Posted in Uncategorized on 28 February, 2009 | 4 Comments »
“Hey, landlord! Can we come round your house, and watch cartoons?”
Posted in councils, tagged shop takeovers on 28 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
[Cheech & Chong]
Matt Davies, at Woking Libertarians, refers to this BBC story, which has since been copied by some of the other MSM:
The Local Government Association… is calling for new powers to allow town halls to temporarily use shops as sites for community projects… to allow councils to take over shops once they have been [...]
Sound off of penny dropping
Posted in media, tagged bbc on 28 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Really rather redundant question, asked by the Daily Mail, noticed by Bishop Hill:
Is BBC reporter Robert Peston a government stooge?
Is the Pope?
Does the bear?
Dearie dearie me.
The expanding blogothingie
Posted in libertarianism, tagged blogs on 28 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some more LPUK members’ blogs recently added to the roll:
Caligula’s Palace
Craggy Island
Their Contempt for You is Total
Everything I Say is Right
Obliged to all those who link here; the reason that things are so rarely brought up to date is that I would be a disorganised rabble, but for the fact that there’s only me.
Wimps
Posted in poppycock, tagged football on 28 February, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Ambush Predator:
What sort of a new generation are we trying to raise, exactly?
Oh, I know this one! It’s ‘one which will be no trouble whatsoever to the governing class’, isn’t it?
The Pullman effect (II)
Posted in Uncategorized on 28 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Further to the last posting about Philip Pullman’s missing polemic: I have updated the original post, the link now being broken. A copy of the work is also available at The Libertarian Alliance.
The Pullman effect
Posted in literature, tagged Philip Pullman on 28 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I note with dissatisfaction An Englishman’s report that the Philip Pullman piece to which we both linked earlier has now been removed from the online version of the Times.
An Englishman has kindly reposted the article for the benefit of those who missed it; a commenter provides its missing line.
The great science-fiction writer Harry Harrison was [...]
I told you so
Posted in internet, tagged awards on 28 February, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I note with satisfaction that the excellent Nightjack is in line for some kind of blogging award.
Having always said that the detective branch’s gain was literature’s loss, I feel I am entitled to a small ‘I told you so’.
Alpha Inventions: another result
Posted in Uncategorized on 27 February, 2009 | 5 Comments »
“This Sketch is getting Silly.”
[Python]
I recently posted a report on the result of using the service provided by alphainventions.com.
It was suggested that if one were to write a piece plugging their service one would get more reads.
I did this, including no fewer than seven identical links to the service, as above.
The statistics today record [...]
2+2=32768
Posted in policing, tagged thermal imager on 27 February, 2009 | 8 Comments »
When we bought the Villa Underclass, Mrs. Underclass and myself got a company in to install some log-burning stoves.
We also took the advice of our insurers in the application of reasonable security precautions, particularly in respect of the back of the house.
It now turns out that neither of these was a good idea, because as [...]
