Showing posts with label Welfare State. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Welfare State. Show all posts

Monday, September 25, 2023

Hollow Be Thy Name, Part One

"Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannize but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is shepherd..." -- Alexis de Tocqueville

Wednesday, December 7, 2022

The Right To Steal...

 "The food we were given was no more than eatable, but the patron was not mean about drink; he allowed us two litres of wine a day each, knowing that if a plongeur is not given two litres he will steal three..." -- George Orwell, 'Down And Out in Paris and London'

Saturday, December 11, 2021

Starving the Beast...

 "I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them..." -- Thomas Jefferson

Saturday, July 31, 2021

Thursday, November 5, 2020

Thursday, July 16, 2020

Douchebags of the Week (Week Ending 7/18/2020) - Empty Heads And Empty Vaginas

"Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity."  -- Bernard Barton

"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty." -- George Bernard Shaw

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are stupider than that." -- George Carlin

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

I'm Begging You...

"Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them, and annoying not to give to them!"` -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Stupid is the New Black

"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?" -- George Orwell, "1984"


Sunday, July 16, 2017

The Overlord's Dating and Marriage Tips


Yesterday saw your Galactic Master at a family gathering where one of the topics of conversation became "Why isn't Cousin X married yet?". This question was being asked by the females present, providing yet another prime example of why there is No God.

Thursday, July 6, 2017

Funny Thing About Equality...

Your Overlord took a short hiatus to celebrate the July 4th holiday which involved gross quantities of various and sundry barbecued meats, a healthy supply of liquor, and a conversation that evoked dangerous thoughts bordering on Common Sense...