Responding to the London Metropolitan Police's new anti-photographer snitch campaign, wherein posters urge Londoners to turn in people who might be taking pictures of CCTV cameras, many people have taken a crack at redesigning the posters to point out the absurdity of them.
via Brenda and Boingboing
When I make a joke, it doesn't harm anyone; you can take it or leave it. But when Congress makes a joke, it's a law.
Will Rogers (attrib)
...and in the same vein:-
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
[‘Renewable resources’] are not renewable… Taking energy from winds and tides irreversibly enervates the weather system and slows the rotation of the Earth
Steve Reed (Chairman, UKIP Wells and Weston-super-Mare branch) in Yorkshire Post, 5 August 2004 (via Richard Corbett MEP)
You may have heard of Ann Coulter - if not google it. Once you have done that you will understand why this - for me anyway - is so funny...
"There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too."
Though this quote comes from the World War II-centered Mother Night (published in 1961), its wisdom and ugly truth still ring. Vonnegut (who often said "The only difference between Bush and Hitler is that Hitler was elected") was righteously skeptical about war, having famously survived the only one worth fighting in his lifetime. And it's never been more true: Left or right, Christian or Muslim, those convinced they're doing violence in service of a higher power and against an irretrievably inhuman enemy are the most dangerous creatures of all.
[via "Our Word is our Weapon"]
From virtual philosopher.
...the Vice Chancellor was intent on closing down a department to save money. It came down to a choice between Mathematics and Philosophy. The mathematicians thought they had a winning case: all they needed for their research was some coffee, a table, some pencils, and a wastepaper basket. But the philosophers undercut them: they didn't need the wastepaper basket.
A review of Romeo and Juliet found by Charlie Stross.
Son of Sammy wrote: "i just read this book. everybody like always talks about how great it is and everything. but i don't think so. like, it's been done before, right?? soooo cliched. omg."
From the discussion there appears to be some doubt that this is genuine, but unfortunately it rings all too true.
| You Are a "Don't Tread On Me" Libertarian |
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