Woody Allen vs William Buckley
07 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, liberalism Tags: William F. Buckley, Woody Allen
Peace in the Middle East – Pat Condell
06 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in laws of war, liberalism, war and peace Tags: Peace in the Middle East
Britain is a world leader in exporting creeps » Nick Cohen
05 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, liberalism, politics Tags: Jihadist, Nick Cohen, political correctness
The British recruits who have joined Isis are not exceptions. They flourish in a culture in which it is so commonplace to offer support to authoritarian regimes and movements that few bother to condemn it.
Free speech ought to mean the freedom to challenge and criticise in all except the most tightly defined circumstances. Instead in Britain tolerance has become indifference; a lazy desire to live in our comfortable bubbles.
The dominant culture views vigorous criticism as rude or insensitive – or, to use that popular and completely meaningless school-prefect putdown, “inappropriate.” More often that not, criticism is taken down and used as evidence of the critic’s failings, his or her obsessions and phobias.
We cannot be bothered to challenge fanatics. We say we don’t want to ‘force our views on others’ – as if argument were physical coercion. And if those others leave England to enslave Kurdish women, or applaud kleptomaniac dictators, we are not responsible. We never concerned ourselves with their affairs, nor argued with them for a moment.
Many poisonous plants have bloomed in this dank climate.
via Britain is a world leader in exporting creeps » Spectator Blogs.
Celebrating diversity – Pat Condell
02 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in liberalism Tags: Pat Condell, political correctness, The Age of Enlightenment
Would You Rather Be Rich In 1900, Or Middle-Class Now?
02 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in liberalism, technological progress Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Fact
There’s no racist like a liberal racist – Pat Condell
01 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in liberalism Tags: Leftover Left, Pat Condell, political correctness, progressives
Pat Condell: Progressivism Destroyed in 8 Minutes
31 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
in liberalism, politics, Rawls and Nozick Tags: Leftover Left, new inquistion, Pat Condell, political corrections, progressive left, superiority of western civilisation, The Age of Enlightenment
Homeopathic A and E
30 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
in health economics, liberalism Tags: Quacks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0#t=21
HT: Sane Bob
Rod Liddle: The most fatuous phrases in the English language
30 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
in liberalism Tags: grumpy old men
1. Battling my demons It was demons who held down that actress/pop singer/reality TV star and rammed four kilos of charlie up her left nostril leaving her with the IQ of an aspidistra and, alas, sans septum…
2 Vulnerable: It’s official — the most abused word in the English language these days. Today, as used by the whining liberal left, it means anyone who isn’t an able-bodied middle-aged white heterosexual male in full possession of his mental faculties…
3. Diversity Something brilliant, to be championed. We all love diversity, don’t we? As used by the left it means ‘lots of ethnic minorities’. Quite often it is deployed to mean precisely the opposite of its original meaning.
4. Denier: A horrible and recent confection of, again, the liberal left. You can be a ‘climate change denier’, which means you might doubt that global warming will cause quite the catastrophic circumstances — annihilation of all living creatures, earth burned to a crust, polar bears howling in agony — dreamed up by the maddest, gibbering eco-warriors…
5. Classic: I bought some lavatory paper the other day which was described as having a ‘classic design’. ..
6. Wrong side of history: If someone says you’re on the wrong side of history, it is their smug and stupid way of telling you that you are wrong and they are right, no more…
7. Let me absolutely clear about this, Evan…: Any politician who tells you that he is about to be absolutely clear about anything is actually about to lie to you and probably steal your spoons…
8. Vibrant: Used as a synonym for ‘noisy’ or ‘thieving’…
9. Community: Yes, Huw, it’s a vibrant and diverse community, but it’s also a very vulnerable community, which is why the police have been brought in to stop angry local people attacking them…
Source: spectator
Deirdre McCloskey on the fatal conceit
30 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, entrepreneurship, liberalism Tags: Deirdre McCloskey, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge
HT: Cafe Hayek
The Berlin Wall: 1989 and now
29 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
in liberalism Tags: Berlin wall, collapse of communism
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After the Berlin wall fell, the local German club in Canberra purchased a piece of the Berlin wall and mounted it o the wall over its entrance. There are markets and everything, including historical icons of liberty.
Within hours of the fall of the Berlin wall, a buddy German entrepreneur or two noticed that a lot of people will want to buy a piece of the Berlin wall, including expatriate Germans. One way these entrepreneurs would have noticed would have been local Berliners sticking pieces of the wall in the boots of their cars to take home as souvenirs.
There were 184 kilometres (114 miles) of concrete, or 45,000 individual segments, and its commercial value was recognised early.
Showing a notable nascent capitalist instinct, ministers of the provisional GDR government passed a resolution to take commercial advantage of the Berlin Wall on December 29, 1989, before official demolition even began.
An East German foreign trade company, Limex-Bau, received the job of marketing the individual segments, which it apparently did with some success. Three-hundred-sixty segments were taken for their artistic value and sold all over the world for prices as high as 40,000 marks.
There are segments in Las Vegas casinos, South Korean parks and on Caribbean islands. The city of Berlin has also kept a few dozen segments to give away as ceremonial state gifts.
HT: spiegel.de
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