I’m enraged at this bad turn my body has done me…
Asides
The UN’s proposal for decriminalisation is senseless and destructive. Help Addicts, But Lock Up the Casual Users of Cocaine.
Let’s divert the money spent on arms to addressing the real strategic threat. Stop Building Tanks.
On June 7, 2009, Swedish voters elected a member of the PiratPariet (Pirate Party) to the European Parliament. These are Crucial Freedoms.
What is the value of real-world social interactions? Happinomics.
Global warming is a symptom of human overshoot: the consumption and waste that exceeds the biophysical capacity of the Earth. Overshoot and Tech Dreams.
Now that hype and hyperinflation have killed the art market, what will define the new aesthetic?
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I wonder what inspires a man to complain of “having nothing to do”...
They flock together like ants, hurry east and west, run north and south…
But when she sat on the edge of her bed, still faintly hearing the high accents of the music below, which seemed to be endlessly repeating tin-cup, top-hat, she saw that she knew what advice she would get if she went to get it…
Empathy (Confucius, 'The Analects')
2009-03-10
Ziyong asked, Is there one word that can be practiced for the whole of one’s life? ...
I have five pebbles, not too different in size and weight, yet a randomness about them…
Next is he who cultivates the shoots of goodness…
To be true is the Way of heaven. To make oneself true is the Way of man…
You can’t never go wrong cuttin’ fence…
We are all Receding (Martin Amis, 'Money')
2009-01-25
I went for a rug-rethink in Queensway this afternoon…
No-hopers (Martin Amis, 'Money')
2009-01-05
And now I am one of the unemployed. What do we do all day?...
Hobgoblins (H. L. Mencken)
2009-01-01
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.