Sunday Take away the ability to trade freely and what appears in its place is corruption. The more regulations, the more pervasive the corruption. When buying and selling are controlled by legislation the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. P. J. O’Rourke Today, the economies of the Western world are burdened with regulations sufficient to break the … [Read more...]
Hollywood – the Lesson to be Learned
Thursday The glittery façade built around the sluts and perverts of Hollywood has shattered. It all turned out to be icing sugar on turds. The sleazebags who used their power for sexual gain, are gross; almost as bad as the wanna-be-stars who enabled them by trying to fondle and fuck their way to the top. The former includes the stars who had made it to the top and … [Read more...]
The Future of Christianity
A Comment on Fred Reed’s ‘The Place of Christianity in History: A View from Without’ Mr Reed is one of my favourite authors, and not just because he is a fellow cigar smoker, or because his cigar has the scruffy look of the wonderful cigars that I used to hand-roll in Colombia, but because he is a good thinker and writer. That said, I think that in this instance it is most … [Read more...]