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Monthly Archives: December 2016
Tobacco Control Must Be Destroyed
I came across this passage yesterday in a ZeroHedge article about fake news, mass hysteria, and induced insanity: Mass hysteria eventually wears off, as it overloads the emotional circuitry of the target audience; humans soon become desensitized to the triggers … Continue reading
Cigarettes Are Little Friends
I remarked a few days ago after reading it that “The Pleasure of Smoking” had struck me very forcefully as the title for a study of confirmed smokers. It rather subverted the ubiquitous “Smoking kills” shouted out on every cigarette … Continue reading
All The News That Isn’t News
These days I only ever get to occasionally watch TV at my brother’s house. And over Christmas I watched a bit. A couple of items stood out, both of them like sore thumbs, as very good reasons for not watching … Continue reading
The Exquisite Pleasures of Smoking
H/T Simon Clark for The Pleasure of Smoking. It was actually a bit of a surprise to read something which had a title like “The Pleasure of Smoking”. After all, in this relentlessly negative era, how often does smoking ever … Continue reading
Delingpole and Snowdon
I’m a regular reader of both Christopher Snowdon and James Delingpole. Snowdon usually writes sceptically about public health. And Delingpole usually writes sceptically about global warming/climate change. With a few slight reservations, I have a high opinion of both of … Continue reading
An Imaginary Conversation with Joe Biden
I don’t know much about Joe Biden, except that he’s been Barack Obama’s Vice-President for his entire presidency. But the impression I have of him is that he’s a likeable sort of guy. About six months back he was asked … Continue reading
No Consideration
I’ve started reading Illiberal Reformers, by Thomas C. Leonard. It arrived in the post a few days ago. It’s about the rise of the the US administrative state about a century ago. The administrative state was to be run by … Continue reading
Fostering Guilt And Shame
Following on from yesterday, I found an interview of Barack Obama by Bill Maher. What initially interested me about this interview was that Obama gave a broad wink after saying he was an ex-smoker. Which sort of meant to me … Continue reading
A Separate Culture
I was watching Bill Maher earlier this morning. I don’t know anything about him. He seemed to have had some sort of nervous breakdown when Trump got elected, and this was the first time he’d talked about it. So I … Continue reading
