You All Suck (#59 - Be Careful What You Ask For Edition)

 "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it, good and hard..." -- H.L. Mencken

Experts, Shmexperts and The New Nazis...

 

'Experts' are always the last to discover the obvious and the first to cover their asses..." -- The Overlord

More Signs and Some Questions...

 Another review of the New Signs of Our Times going up all over the Overlord's patch of the galaxy...

At Least Cruelty Sometimes Sleeps...

 "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likely to make a Hell of Earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's own will and to be cured of states we do not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles and domestic animals..." -- C.S. Lewis, "God in the Dock; Essays on Theology"

Perspective, Son...

 "Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them through the eyes of others..." - Alexandre Dumas, "The Count of Monte Cristo"

"Electricity is really just organized lightning..." -- George Carlin

The Perils of Armchair Prognostication...

 "It's so easy to be wrong -- and to persist in being wrong -- when the costs of being wrong is paid by others..." -- Thomas Sowell

Stupid Passive Aggressive...

 "At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child -- miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of spoiled brats" -- P.J. O'Rourke, "Give War a Chance"

Canada, Ukraine and New Yorkistan...

 "This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half..." -- George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

Step Back and Breathe...

"There is something that unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform objective reality to the wishes of Man, and the solution is a technique." -- C.S. Lewis

Douchebag of the Week (Week Ending 4/13/2019) - The Clintons.

"That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire..."
                                                               
                                       -- Rudyard Kipling "The Gods of the Copybook Headings"

Mueller and Tilting at Windmills....

"The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water" -- Miguel Cervantes, "Don Quixote"

We Interrupt This Blog for an Important Bulletin...

I will finish the VICIOUS (someone complained), poorly-written (someone complained) and totally ACCURATE (someone complained) and well-deserved (sez me) expose of the infantile, pot-addled mind of the Libertarian later this week. But I must pause here to address another issue of burning importance.