Category Archives: Health

A Bunni I’ve never read

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Being a heartless Libertarian ™ and a follower of blogs written by other such types, the plight of a certain Amusing Bunni has been drawn to my attention. The full story is obviously on their blog, but in short they’ve been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer and not long to live. Cancer is never good news and in the states it’s also quite expensive, so please go over to their blog and donate a few cents to help them out. The inestimable Leg Iron is auctioning his fine hand crafted smoking man’s ride so you could always go on bid … Continue reading →

Supporting Octabber

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Sticking to my normal tradition of being so far behind the times I’m permanently retro I thought I should probably direct you all towards Octabber before it actually arrives. As is so often the case the existence of this excellent idea came across my path via the ever erudite LegIron. It seems that “no smoking day” is no longer enough and October is to be declared non-smoking month. Now we can all look forward to being bombarded by irritating smug adverts trying to encourage people who don’t want to stop smoking to stop smoking. I can but assume that the … Continue reading →

Ban that sort of thing

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I keep trying to find time to write an article about the latest moves from the new puritans and their ongoing attempts to ban anything they consider immoral, or that any of the rest of us consider fun. The problem is the proposals, white papers briefings and everything else are coming in such a torrent that I can’t keep up. Thankfully there are the likes of Dick Puddlecote and LegIron who do a much better job. Despite that I’m going to try and do a bit of a round up just so I know where we were a week or … Continue reading →