Tuesday The enthusiasm with which our parliaments and their myriad departments produce regulations implies a belief that when a sufficient number have been enacted we will have a social and economic perfection. I am reminded of the saying ‘the road to hell is paved with good intentions.’ Yet they cannot cease their destructive impulses, for were they to do so, then it … [Read more...]
Pictures Of Santa Coming Down The Chimney In Blackface Surface
Tuesday https://babylonbee.com/news/pictures-of-santa-coming-down-the-chimney-in-blackface-surface … [Read more...]
Vile Bodies – Evening Above the Hell Bar
Monday From my favourite writer... Theodore Dalrymple December 21, 2019S photo credit: Bigstock There are few sounds more frightening than that of the English young enjoying themselves. The English, it was once said, take their pleasures sadly; but now they take them loudly, which is far, far worse. Their pleasures are brutish, and the sounds the … [Read more...]
Hottest ever day in Australia — especially if you ignore history
Saturday From JoNova Tuesday was Australia’s hottest day on record sayth the Bureau of Meteorology. And perhaps it was. But look at the temperatures reported in newspapers across the country during the month of January in 1896 when people were going mad with axes, dropping dead in coaches and railway stations and birds were falling lifeless from the trees? Emergency … [Read more...]
Capital Destruction and Dispersal
Wednesday The prosperity of Western Civilization is built upon accumulations of money. Accumulations of money translate into money to lend and, the reverse side of the coin, money to borrow. Borrow for what? Increased production – the making of better and/or cheaper goods. (It is interest, and only interest, that draws this money out of the … [Read more...]