Quotulated on the subject of responsibility
It’s always a pleasure to be Quotulated. That particular Quotulation being from a posting I did for Samizdata entitled Jordan Peterson on responsibility – and on why it is important that he is not a...
View ArticleTom Harwood on the party politics of Covid
Tom Harwood, tweeting in response to a Guido tweet reporting that Starmer will support all government Covid restrictions: On the areas it might be useful to have an opposition, we have no opposition. I...
View ArticleMy piece on Democrat electoral cheating gets Quotulated
It always cheers me up when something I write gets Quotulated. So I am very happy to discover that the piece I did here entitled Why Democrat electoral cheating is no longer okay was thus recognised....
View ArticleDemocracy is war by other means – so do not trash it and especially not in...
This is all good, but this is particularly good: Before we settled into peaceful, democratic nations, power was decided by Kings, swords, and armies. Power rested with bloody battle and bloody victory....
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Guido before Guido
In among other more tedious tasks like fixing Power-of-Attorney for my Senior Coordinating Friend, for if I stop functioning properly before all the other tedious tasks are done, I am trying to get my...
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A quota photo – and why I (and 6k) like quota photos
Rough day today, what with the steroids having stopped. They definitely had a mental as well as physical effect. So quota photo time, this photo has been picked pretty much at random from the archives:...
View ArticleSheff U beat Man U
Because of my fondness for 6k and his bloggage, and his fondness for my bloggage, my second favourite team in the football Premiership is now Sheffield United. Who are now bottom of the table, but who...
View ArticleHow to win the libertarian argument with hippos
Once again, I am saying a big thank you to Rob Fisher, for doing his bit to make my life and libertarianising echo in eternity. (Commenters, what movie am I quoting there? I liked that phrase the...
View ArticleBMNB QotD: On the sunk cost fallacy
Ryan North: I’ve learned far too much about the sunk cost fallacy to stop now. And I might as well carry on blogging, given how long I’ve been at it.
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The Airbus A390 “Clickbait”– etc.
Indeed: I encountered this glorious airplane on Twitter, but just now Twitter is refusing to load onto my computer, for some idiot reason to do with me refusing to update or generally do as commanded,...
View ArticlePatrick and I talk about the current state of libertarianism
I’ve had a busy day doing other things, but last Tuesday, Patrick Crozier and I recorded a conversation about the current state of the libertarian movement, and I can at least today report that Patrick...
View ArticleHow the beagle helped 6k to pick Hideki Matsuyama to win the US Masters
If you like blogging comedy gold, I warmly recommend this posting, about how favourite-blogger-of-mine 6k got his beagle to help him place his (successful) bet on who would win the US Masters. 6k was...
View ArticleHello again
After writing the previous posting here, about how BMNB dot com is now being wound down, from a daily to an occasional blog, I was determined that my next piece of bloggage would be for Samizdata, and...
View ArticleUpdate on Brian
Blogmaster Michael here.Brian is presently in 24 hour care, after having some radiotherapy recently. This has after-effects, sadly, and he is therefore doing it a bit rough at the moment. Hopefully...
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