How often do you see really truly awesomely rich people standing in a queue? Not often. But it happens.
How often do you see really truly awesomely rich people standing in a queue? Not often. But it happens.
… when Camille Paglia starts to analyse the US Presidential race.
Poor Zimbabwe. According to the BBC it has been ‘plagued’ (origin of said plagues not described) by the world’s highest inflation, as well as acute food and fuel shortages. Newsflash: These phenomena are not caused by ‘plagues’. They are caused both in general and in Zimbabwe’s case in particular by truly stunning and […]
Wikipedia: a new battleground in the US Presidential elections.
If you get something wrong these days, it can get pointed out out quite fast. But damage has still been done. And it is creepy how such high-profile matters are often corrected without saying that this correction has happened and why. Are we BBC licence-payers not entitled to rather More?
Why are governments increasingly ineffective at running things? Partly because they are besieged by complexity – every problem turns out to be connected to every other problem, hence there is no way to measure success or failure, hence ever more neurotic official attempts to ‘set targets’. But they also operate […]
At least one person is doing the right thing in the New York sex scandal.
The idea in my preceding post that the worse fate that can befall us is not erosion of our freedoms, but an erosion of the very idea of freedom reminded me of this: The biggest problem is not that TV shows’ plots are too complicated, but that shows have any plots at […]
What a fine analysis. If you want to block something many people want, don’t ban it – just make it too big a hassle to be worthwhile…
