Thursday 27 December 2012

Christmas. No Cheer.

First of all, Merry Christmas everybody.
Our Christmas has been a sad affair; my younger cousin who was suffering from cancer, died on Christmas Eve.
She leaves a husband and four young children behind.

A few days before she died, she was still out and about, so you can imagine that when she deteriorated suddenly, we were and still are, in shock.

She didn't smoke or do anything risky; while cancer was in her family, typically everybody lived till they were at least elderly.

She was carried off.
She was a sweet and lovely kid that I can still see in my mind's eye.

Thursday 13 December 2012

How Can You Tell....

...the difference between a 'fan', and an Objectivist?
There are many differences.
First and foremost, Objectivists almost never use the term 'Objectivist'. In fact, the vast majority of them don't even know the word.

They merely apply rational judgement to the world about them, and reason their way through all the traps being sprung by the fever wards.

Fans, on the other hand, are never satisfied with the products of such minds, and only accept them grudgingly after they have done them down because they don't sound like an identical quote from one of the less elegant passages which can be found in the works of Ayn Rand; that is, they can't find the familiar hints that they have used to wear out a neural pathway to their tenuous hold on the truth.

Fans will witness a maestro of reason and wit producing a master work and yet will reject the work, or worse still the author, because they haven't polluted their work with unnecessary affirmation of someone else's expression.

In other words, fans, those fanatics of rote dogma, reject such people because of their integrity.

Because they are actual people.

And all the while, the rational go on being Objectivists in the same way that weights go on being 'gravitational', while they are on Earth.

It goes without saying that there are large numbers of liars and charlatans as well, but because fans have abandoned rational judgement for rote dogma, they cannot tell with any certainty.

So the cheats rattle the dog's bowl with the 'O' word and mention of Rand, and enjoy the spectacle of salivating fans who bark with their votes.

And the Objectivists are to be found elsewhere.

Friday 7 December 2012

Take Five

We hear that the poor nurse who was defrauded by the press-they obtained information about the princess via false pretenses, a hoax- the poor nurse involved has committed suicide.

That's right. A victim of the ink-stained scum is dead. They drove her to suicide.

Whether she did it because she was the best, most incredibly conscientious nurse imaginable, or whether she just couldn't face sharing a world with subhuman filth that could reach her at any time it chose, the fact remains that she is dead, and it's their fault.
So what about it Dave? Are you going to regulate the bastards into the ground?
Or are you just a shiny-faced, grinning sack of crap?

Saturday 1 December 2012

In Your Oxbridge Punt.....

Your the National Post.
Actually they're showing signs of improvement.
And the bye-line was Conrad Black. Although it was still signed 'National Post' at the end.