Saturday, January 15, 2005

Nothing to Sell or Spin

Individualism and liberty…

The following words, written by P.J. O’Rourke, were delivered at the Cato Institute, back in 1993.  Richard Nikoley, in a post titled “What’s So Funny?," offers them up as ”...a better manifesto..." for the future path of civilization.  I know the path, do you?

"We have no ideology, no agenda, no catechism, no dialectic, no plan for humanity. We have no “vision thing,” as our ex-president would say, or, as our current president would say, we have no Hillary.

All we have is the belief that people should do what people want to do, unless it causes harm to other people. And that had better be clear and provable harm. No nonsense about second-hand smoke or hurtful, insensitive language, please."

Read O’Rourke’s entire piece at Richard’s.  If you want to, that is.

Posted by John Venlet on 01/15 at 09:37 AM
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Looking For a Career Kids? Try Stripping

A big bust helps…

"Students at a Palo Alto middle school learned more than school officials ever expected when a recent “career day” speaker extolled the merits of stripping and expounded on the financial benefits of a larger bust.”

“...He told the students, “For every two inches up there, it’s another $50, 000,” according to Jason Garcia, 14."

But don’t do cartwheels on the playground.

“Bump, grind your way to riches, students told"

Posted by John Venlet on 01/15 at 07:49 AM
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Calling Solomon

Desperation for a child…

"The infant dubbed “Baby 81” nurses from a bottle of milk and kicks playfully at a pink blanket as nine desperate, heartbroken women quarrel over him - all claiming he was torn from them by the tsunami.

One man standing outside the nursery at Kalmunai Base Hospital threatened to kill himself and his wife if they are not given the baby. A woman at the hospital said she would kill the doctors unless she gets him."

“9 desperate woman fighting for tsunami-survivor ‘Baby 81’"

Posted by John Venlet on 01/15 at 07:26 AM
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