Further feisty observations on Evolution from a reader: Let’s make a simplified projection based on those two coexisting and interdependent groups (while acknowledging there are other groups and factors at play): One group, those on modest working incomes have chosen not to have children (or as a group to have fewer children) because of […]
I have had a Palm for years, virtually problem-free. They work by doing the basics in an easy, stable way. Now this new device is coming our way. Looks good.
Have spent most of the morning grappling with online and other HM Government services. Thus we can not enroll for Corporation Tax services until we have had our registered company address changed. This problem arises because the soon-to-be-mighty global corporation CGC reSolutions Ltd took over another defunct company. The registered address […]
A reader adds a gloss on my earlier observations on Evolution: … one extra point might be made, just to protect against hubris in evolutionists, who seem for the most part to have an unfailing belief in the perfectibility of man. . You write of breeding schemes producing ‘better animals’. Better for […]
I have never understood the rows that go on about the teaching of evolution in schools. Both God and the Big Bang are phenomena far beyond our puny understandings. The task of a good teacher surely is to explain these different views in an calm, interesting way and so help […]
Tim Worstall and Dennis the Peasant are having it out with Richard Murphy on tax issues and economic theory in general. Good stuff if you want to see lively minds hammering away (albeit often crossly and at cross purposes) about Basic Principles. Richard Murphy seems like a Man with a […]
The Crawfs have been slumped in family consumeristic torpor, the children with assorted electronic games and I with my excellent new Skeletool. Not so impressed with the Sony Reader. This is an idea which should be good in a few years’ time, but not yet (compare the early greyscreen must-have Palm Pilot with an […]
I make it into the latest Britblog Round-up, No 201. It led me to this latest tirade against Government Targets in the area of officially supported academic research activities: Government blithely assumes that management is weightless; but the direct cost of writing detailed specifications and special software, and assembling 1,100 panellists to […]
Here is a brisk Samizdata posting about our current financial woes: A lot of people in the financial industry are trying to figure out the individual costs to them of the $50 billion Bernard Madoff hedge fund fraud. The allegation is that Mr Madoff operated a "Ponzi scheme" scam wherby […]
Insofar as this Blogoir has a Theme and Point, it is that we keep reminding ourselves that Decisions have Consequences. Some consequences are planned and desirable. Others are unplanned/unexpected/undesirable, not least because the consequences of various decisions taken independently in practice get tangled up together and make an even worse […]
