Monthly Archives: June 2004

QotD

The hobo’s speech from Frank Capra’s Meet John Doe (1941): I seen guys like you go under before. Guys that never had a worry. Then they got a hold of some dough and went goofy. The first thing that happens … Continue reading

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let’s not overdo it

I’ve just heard that banks and the Postal Monopoly are closed today for Mr Reagan’s funeral. I wonder whether the guest of honor would have approved.

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welcome Yazad

Those, if any, who enjoyed my terse libertarian rants of yore are invited to my comments here and here and here on AnarCapLib, a group blog of Indian individualists which I’m reading because Russell said to.

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if I voted

This was Russell’s Quote of the Day a week ago: All of us must begin telling everyone we know – especially if they’re not libertarians – that if they’re fed up with this mess the Republicans have made in Iraq … Continue reading

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pity my aging eyes

I’m getting very tired of light-on-dark webpages.

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foo

Bad advice, running around loose. In utterly unrelated news: This week I shared an office with someone who sounds to me as if she’s from some unfamiliar part of Australia but is in fact from Derby. Learn something every day.

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shiny!

If this is to be believed, Serenity will open on April 22. Later: Or not.

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