The BBC broadcast a comedy on Monday, Citizen Khan, the first ever Asian sitcom they've done.

On the weekend I visited the Landscape Gardens of Stowe House in Buckinghamshire.

By chance I happened across "the Temple of British Worthies" built in 1734.

http://blazingcatfur.blogspot....

I once had some free, unsolicited and well-intentioned advice for the Prime Minister published in the Timaru Herald. My advice was to fuck off.

Thank God, eventually she did.

Hi all. Linz will be speaking at the conference below. For bookings and more information see here:
http://www.libertarianz.org.nz/conference-2012/

Liberty Conference 2012 – Towards a True Liberal Bloc in Parliament

‘Not your usual Libertarianz conference’

This is the beginning of THE COMPROMISED HOSTILITIES,a drama about Jay Gould.

Most of you know what iambic pentameter is. If you have comments, make them.

"Judges, like politicians, are happiest when they can avoid confronting the real issues and this judgement is no exception to the rule.

Ayn Rand was a brilliant philosophical innovator. People of low quality who oppose her tend to rather pathetically say that her ideas are both old and false. But this is self-refuting.

Cigarette manufacturers in Australia have just lost a legal appeal to stop their products being sold in plain packaging.

The ultra-rich, who control the majority of our planet's wealth, spend their time at cocktail parties and salons while millions of decent hard-working people starve.

Lie No. 1: Obama has repeatedly claimed his white grandfather, Stanley Dunham, "fought in Patton's army," when he was a clerk with no combat in WWII.

Tip of the hat to the people of London and Great Britain for the wonderful job they seem to have done at the 30th Olympiad. I thought the Games were well-organized and well-run.

I believe that X.

Is my belief that X rational?

A black and white issue!

Romney Up 22 Points Among Whites

The CSIRO has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science.

Dear Stephen,

I suspect Ayn Rand would have loved this.

I saw this children's book today in the UK.

As you can see "proudly made in NZ".

Oh, the inhumanity of it.

How does English like this get past the editor's pen?

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net...

From best of Life Behind the IRon Drape.

Excerpt: George Orwell, 1984:

From best of Life Behind the IRon Drape.

From the co-creator of the comic book hero Spiderman and semi-Objectivist Steve Ditko:

http://imgur.com/a/bkpDE

From Mandella's Robben Island Bible (i.e.

When is a child old enough to decide whether or not to mutilate his parents' genitals?

On July 13th, 2012, in Roanoke, Virginia, President Barack Obama said:

From best of Life Behind the IRon Drape.

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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.

George Orwell – 1984

Chris (The Fist) Trotter, socialist political commentator, is quickly becoming New Zealand’s most useful, ‘useful idiot’, in that often he will let that urbane, oh-so-reasonable, caring, fiction of his image drop and let us see the mean-spirited, malevolent heart of the coercive statist that slouches beneath.