Milton Friedman

Milton Friedman - Economist, Nobel Prize winner and libertarian minarchist.
In this clip Friedman discusses the 'virtues' of greed.

Dr Martin Luther King Day

Today is Martin Luther King Jr day in the USA.
I was going to post the 'I have a dream speech', but for me this was more prescient.

Eat slower fatty!

A plate that weighs how much food is on a plate and tracks the speed at which that food is shoveled into your gob has been invented.

Apparently, speed is important. It's not the shit your shovelling its the speed in which you do it. So, eating a bucket of fried chicken very quickly is worse then eating it slowly. It's all to do with the behaviours of fatties. Fat people tend to eat quicker, and consequently the experts suggest more.

I am fascinated by human behaviour, so I agree with the premise that fat people share common behavioural traits, but eating quickly?! I know plenty of people who eat quickly and are thin as a rake. The computerised plate, just seems very gimmicky, and unnecessary, when the truth is that fat people eat more (period). Now they also probably don't get very much exercise, but again there are plenty of people who don't get any exercise, but still remain thin.

Boy 'suspended for crisp dealing'

As a clear example of how prohibition of anything, no matter how inane, causes the market to respond in unexpected ways I would like to draw your attention to the seedy underworld of 'crisp dealing'. Yes that's right the 'fatty potatoe' snacks that were once part of a child's packed lunch are now being 'marked-up' and sold on the black market. The crisp dealer has been suspended from Cardinal Heenan High School in Liverpool. A school in which all fatty snacks have been outlawed. I mean its quite funny, but it really does highlight how prohibiting a product doesn't remove the demand it only creates a culture of criminality around the product.

Full story

Cassetteboy vs Nick Griffin vs Question Time

I agree with nearly everything in this edition of Question time.

The price of life

If you were terminally ill how much would you pay or what would you give to live longer than you expected. I mean if the pain and agony you might be in was only exceeded by the psychological distress of leaving loved ones behind on this mortal coil, how much would you pay?

If we are to believe that life is priceless and health care is a right then surely £3,000 a month is a minuscule price to pay, right? I mean the biggest advocates for the NHS argue that the UK system with all its flaws, is a righteous institute, whereby if you get ill or injured and need to come into a hospital or see a doctor you'll be treated regardless of your ability to pay (God save the Queen!). Well, the reality (truth) is different. It would seem that the preservation/prolonging of life is secondary to our health bureaucrats, instead management and rationing is its primary concern.

NICE, an Orwellian new-speak abbreviation of 'The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence', has decided to not give patients in the last stages of Liver cancer a drug which could prolong their life for a couple of months to a year. Yes I said 'could'! Now for all of you leftists out there who bang on that making profit out of health care is cruel, take a look at what rationing and health care does, people die and suffer. Think about it! So, next time you start getting all teary eyed and patriotic look at what you, because apparently this Government represents you, are doing to sick people. I mean these people probably payed their taxes and contributed to society, and when they need it most the door is slammed in their face. As you can tell this makes me somewhat angry..

Full article here.

Distractions

Well i haven't posted in a while. No excuses, except that I was on my holidays in a part of the world where prolonged Internet access is very difficult to come by. But I'm not going to use that as an excuse. Anyway, I'm going to start posting again but its like running its so easy to keep moving but once you stop you might as well call it a day and hit the shower.