Apparently today is don’t give a fuck day

Apparently today is “don’t give a fuck” day, a day probably mainly being observed by people that don’t give a fuck generally and will continue to not give a fuck beyond this day. A point really rather excellently made by the erudite Mr Maillin (Who’s how I discovered it’s “don’t give a fuck” day): An open letter to all those who “Don’t give a fuck” today. So, you’ve decided that today you won’t give a fuck eh? Well good for you. I assume of course that this means for the other 364 days of the year you will actually start … Continue reading

What’s right with Libertarians

Yoinked directly from The Devils Kitchen from a rather excellent article by Bella Gerens, I think this really sums up a huge amount of what I find appealing and a good thing about the Libertarians: Libertarians don’t fight with left-wingers, they fight with each other. It’s the only ‘mob’ you’ll ever see where the crowd hears a rousing speech and says to one another, ‘You know, I’m not sure I agree with him. He misses Friedman’s point about the fact that…’ and then argues all the way to the pub, where they’d all much rather be anyway. 0-1

The rule of law

Hat tip to the good Captain Ranty for the following two videos. This is a very interesting development by The Runnymede Institute to address the constitutional fuck up that the last couple of Governments have made by tinkering badly with how parliament and the union are formed. The Videos cover their cahllenge to the illegal (or possibly unlawful) reformation of the house of Lords, do spend the 10 minutes it takes to watch the videos, they’re really terribly enlightening: The likelihood of them succeeding is I fear very low, because of the law is actually upheld then an awful lot … Continue reading