Helen Szamuely is less than impressed with the new Conservative Party leader:
Somebody obviously told him half-way through the leadership campaign that maybe, just maybe, the Conservative Party should be for individual freedom and small government, so those words did occasionally crop up in his later speeches but these were overshadowed by the mellifluous sound of
…and in the comments section of this blog, is described here.
Note, that in this description, I am the debatee, not (generally) the debater (though we’re all occasionally guilty of these things).
Oh, and as you’d expect, the other items on Scott Adams’ blog are amusing as well.
Researchers have determined that schizophrenics have more sex. Or something like that.
This story about the Narnia movie seems to have a strange headline to me. If it pleases them, how can they be said to be critics?
…Inuit representatives complained about the effect climate change was having on their ancient way of life in that their snowmobiles kept dropping through the ice.
…but very entertaining. Johan Goldberg is making mock of idiotarian Barbra Streisand.
…but very entertaining. Johan Goldberg is making mock of idiotarian Barbra Streisand.
…but very entertaining. Johan Goldberg is making mock of idiotarian Barbra Streisand.
One of the favorite tactics of Democrats is to whine about being called “traitors” and “unpatriotic” when they criticize the administration or the war. Or the troops. And what’s frustrating about this is that for the most part it’s a strawman, because I’ve always perceived that in fact few supporters of the war and the administration actually do this.
But it turns out I was wrong. I have found an actual instance of it:
I say to you, all of you…there is nothing patriotic about hating your country, or pretending that you can love your country but despise your government.
I want to go on the record, however, and say that (as is usually the case) I disagree with him.
Last spring, in a piece at TechCentralStation, I disputed the notion that the world was “using up its resources,” and I cited the prevailing belief about the fate of the Easter Islanders:
There was a recent story in The Guardian about a new United Nations study, with the misleading headline, Two-Thirds of World’s Resources “Used Up”. It’s not the first time we’ve seen such hysteria, and it certainly won’t be the last. But relax — the sky isn’t falling. The headline is nonsensical, because it falsely implies that “resources” are a static quantity, and non-renewable. As an example, they often cite Easter Island, whose civilization supposedly failed due to running out of them.
At least one commenter at the time questioned the use of the word “supposedly,” asking (if I recall correctly) if anyone disputed that.
Well, apparently some people do now.
[Via Iain Murray]