December 2011
5 posts
The Human Race
“My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can’t prove it, but you can’t disprove it either.” - Christopher Hitchens
Dec 17th
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That Daily Infusion
“Every day, the New York Times carries a motto in a box on its front page. ‘All the News That’s Fit to Print,’ it says. It’s been saying it for decades, day in and day out. I imagine most readers of the canonical sheet have long ceased to notice this bannered and flaunted symbol of its mental furniture. I myself check every day to make sure that the bright, smug, pompous,...
Dec 16th
Judge the Voter
DCG makes a good point here. If you’re tempted to listen to Silvio Parnis, Michael Farrugia, Marlene Mizzi, Karmenu Vella, Jose Herrera, Edward Scicluna, Consuelo Scerri Herrera (?), Charles Mangion, Anthony Zammit, Anglu Farrugia and Joseph Muscat just remember that they all voted to make KMB Prime Minister in 1992. Then again, by that very same rationale, if you’re tempted to listen...
Dec 12th
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“I wish I could experience the same feeling my cats do whenever they find a new...”
Dec 10th
“Gone was the time of populism and superficiality. A people was judged by the...”
Dec 4th