This was meant to look a bit weird. The opening two words are the famous Greek motto "know thyself", in the possibly less famous Greek original. I just thought it might catch a reader's eye. Because the point is not exactly a novelty. Make an effort to know yourself. Seek to be aware of the kind of thing you are. Try and have at least a little ( Read more... )

Slavery never went away. It just crawled into people's souls and settled there. And of all the slave minds, the worst are those who shill for the rich and powerful - people who don't even need advocacy, they can supply their own so well - and praise their banditry. And there is a variety of such shills who is not only repulsive but also comical: ( Read more... )

...you should never count on anything being withdrawn or altered. You are more likely to be mobbed for your pains, and then to have snarky passive-aggressive posts made about you (without mentioning your name) in which you are called rude and Socialist. (The evidence for the latter being that I said, in the very debate in question, the following ( Read more... )

The media are driving us into yet another Middle Eastern mistake( Read more... )

Or, to be precise, with this quotation? Two successive titles - successive, mind you - on the conservative news service Townhall.com:

Mike Shedlock:
U.S. Local Governments Cut Payrolls to Lowest Level Since 2006

Chris Edwards:
Plunder! How Public Employee Unions Are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives, and Bankrupting the Nation

WHAT IT SAYS

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

WHAT IT DOES NOT SAY

The ability to kill anyone one pleases being an essential feature of a citizen of a free State, no limit shall be placed on the possession and use of weapons.

These people force one to be a conservative whether he will or not. For the second time in two damned months, a so-called liberal has utterly refused to read what I had to say on various subjects. These people consider narrow-mindedness and ignorance to be a test of their virtue and of their higher moral evolution.

Success is very destructive to intelligence, and even more to self-knowledge. It is true, as the article I quote says, that James Cameron is responsible - though not in the penal sense, alas - for two of the most successful movies in history, Titanic and Avatar; but it is also agreed - there is not even room for any real debate - that Cameron also ( Read more... )

As is to be expected, the kind of people who comment on the Daily Jail and related objects have replaced any attempt at thinking with sloganizing and a great deal of insults. I don't want to be drawn into this kind of thing, although I would notify any prospective opponent that where invective is concerned I'm the 500'kilo gorilla; but I do think ( Read more... )

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