If anyone still wonders "what's so bad" about increased security measures like the [Pat]Riot Act in these "more dangerous" [sic] times, because after all we should be more careful and so on - let this show both a) why there is such danger in arguing, and accepting the arguing, from endorsement of general principles to blanket endorsement of ( Read more... )

I am not the only one to go WTF?!? with regard to this particular bit of lingo, but I'm not sure that anyone else has gone looking for it - quite possibly, as I have been overrun and not having the time to follow things so closely this past week fortnight, so I may well be reinventing wheels. But nevertheless, I think it bears some scrutiny (as do ( Read more... )

A while back, in the wake of certain attempts to clarify whether or not the chief counselors of Sodden Prince Georgie were actually saying as they seemed to be, that Dux Super Legis, and questioning them directly on what limits on the War-Duke's power they would admit, a meme went about, grotesque in the extreme but not I thought uncalled for - but ( Read more... )

...The small aristocratic societies that are formed by some manufacturers in the midst of the immense democracy of our age contain, like the great aristocratic societies of former ages, some men who are very opulent and a multitude who are wretchedly poor. The poor have few means of escaping from their condition and becoming rich, but the rich are ( Read more... )