Tim Worstall

When you are alone in the house watching serial killer shenanigans with your headphones on (it makes the sound work better somehow) it’s going to make you jump when two Siamese decide to start a mad game of chase behind you.
Chase? Siamese? How?

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Now Harry’s Place is being sued by George Galloway as well!
As David T puts it, this might well be one of those David Irving moments (or even Oscar Wilde).
Prosecuting for libel with a very weak case can backfire you know…

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Fun fact of the day: MIT releases its undergraduate admission decisions at 1:59 pm today.  (That is, at 3.14159).

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News just in:
Guy Ritchie is to direct a Hollywood film version of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
Vinny Jones as Guinevere perhaps?
The idea just cries out to be previewed….perhaps Jamie K, would care to do the honours, him being good at that sort of thing?

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The Left, as it now too courts the religious Right, is abandoning gay people in every way but lip-service.

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At Takimag again:
There is “Liberal Conspiracy”, which has a proudly defensive ring, as if the group’s Sunny Hundal was endangering his life or liberty in the cause of greater liberalism.
Best thing in the conference though:
There was an unfortunate occurrence when a man was ejected for asking the Sinn Féin speaker whether party [...]

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Or, how crooks betray themselves.

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It’s what you do to repair that ignorance that matters.

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Nee Naw is coming out in Pengiun.
From what I remember (sorry, couple of years since I read the blog) that Sun piece doesn’t do it justice. She’s a much better writer than that precis shows (and purely by the by, when I was reading it I had no idea that it was written by a [...]

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The Papists are having a competition for manifesto policies.
Most fun to drop into the comments on each one and discuss the logic, sense or even connection with reality of them.

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Lenin (he of the Tomb) is getting all excited about something called the “Right to Work” campaign.
I’m just wondering if he knows where the phrase actually comes from?
“Right to Work” laws in the US are the ones which restrict union power. It’s shorthand for those States which insist that there can be no compulsory union [...]

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LinkedIn just sent me an email introducing me to my own stepson. The company thinks, in its irritatingly chirpy way, that we may have some things in common.

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Just to clarify, when I said Obama’s announcement was a “fairly transparent political stunt,” I wasn’t criticizing the Obama administration. We live in a political world, and political stunts are often useful. If I were Rahm Emanuel, I’d be a dick have done the same thing.
That’s the way to make sure you don’t get asked, [...]

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Now don’t let this go to anyone’s head….I’m still of the opinion that most over there are ill- or mal- informed twits but priase should be given where praise is due.
I have a feeling that this:
British companies have been banned from exporting defective bomb detectors to Iraq and Afghanistan over fears they have failed to [...]

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From the Tin Drummer who was having a bad time of it.
It seems odd, and overtly narcisstic, to announce one’s own continued existence: I still am.
It wasn’t an easy 2009, and I had to seek help to carry on. I don’t pretend to be free of the tendency to darkness and soil, but I stopped [...]

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The other blog, the Typepad one.
Traffic was running along at 2-3,000 page views a day. Then a week ago is dropped sharply to 200-300 a day.
Given that almost all of the traffic was coming from old posts it’s not because I’ve not put much up there recently.
I have a feeling that it comes from some [...]

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The Melangerie.
For example, this one. Adam Smith said he believed in the labour theory of value but the implication of other things he said is that he believed in reality in the subjective theory of value.
Or this, which I wish I’d thought of:
But easily the dopiest thing we were told this time by the nef [...]

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If there was no Internets, I’d have to stand on the overpass and yell at cars.
Sounds about right.

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