January 2012
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Success!
Chris loved Annie Hall so much that he wanted to watch Manhatten straight away! Sadly he fell asleep less than half way through. We’ll try this again sometime soon.
I also consider this homework for uni because in the classic “la-di-da” scene of Annie Hall, that performance is a perfect example of self-interruption, which is exactly what I’m doing in class tomorrow!
Gosh,...
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“But we are the sum of all the moments of our lives—all that is ours is in...”
– Thomas Wolfe - Look Homeward, Angel
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In Defence of Capitalism: The Most Virtuous... →
There’s nothing selfish about capitalism. Like every economic model, it is a matrix within which individual actors can behave morally or immorally. But here’s the thing: no one has yet come up with a system that rewards decent behaviour to the same extent.
In an open market based on property rights and free contract, you become wealthy by offering an honest service to others. I am typing...
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“We may test the hypothesis that the State is largely interested in protecting...”
– Murray Rothbard
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“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It...”
– Thomas Jefferson
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“You can find funk everywhere. You can find it in this parking lot if somebody,...”
– Anthony Kiedis, 1990.
Why would you say anything else in that situation?
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Consumers Don’t "Create Jobs" →
In a capitalist economy, the wealth of the rich is in the form of capital, i.e., wealth employed in the production of goods and services for sale. This wealth is the foundation both of the supply of products that people buy and of the demand for the labor that people sell. The greater the wealth of the capitalists, the higher are real wages, both because of a more abundant supply of products...
“I disagree vehemently with the recreational use of drugs, but at the same time,...”
– Ron Paul
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Rhetorical Conventions of Big Government... →
These conventions can be explained by what is arguably the greatest weakness of big government sympathizers: a lack of reasoned thought and creativity that is the result of their inability to look beyond the status quo. In other words, because government does it, they have a hard time envisioning how it could be done without government.
Being against so-called “gun control” means that I...
“If you need the government to protect your culture, it’s already dead. It’s like...”
– Thinksquad
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dulllife asked: Its always good to enjoy a cocktail every now and again!! :P
Anonymous asked: wait... you're not gay?
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This completely made my day!
I’m a member of a Facebook group called “Scottish Libertarians”, which irritatingly provides me with about 25 notifications every day. It’s basically just full of posts and discussions on Libertarianism, plans for meetings, and things happening in Scotland politically. This usually does not make my day.
A few people from it have added me, although I’ve never really...
