Gemesis
Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:00:00 GMT
From kaba:
The legislature is to society as a physician is to the patient. If a physician ignored side effects of medications like today's legislators ignore the side effects of their legislation, the physician would be accused of malpractice. I accuse today's legislators (with rare exception) of legislative malpractice. Many of the ills that are so obvious in our society are a direct result of previous legislation. Their solution? More laws! -- John A. Bennett, DO
Mad Cow, a Totally Tom Animation. Hehe. F-word spoken here. Don't click if that offends you. [smith2004]
Andy Borowitz - George W. Bush Action Figure Recalled; Weapons of Mass Destruction Not Included - satire. Very funny satire. [smith2004]
A G.I. Joe-like action figure depicting President George W. Bush as an "Elite Force Aviator" was recalled today by its manufacturer after consumers discovered that the $39.95 toy did not include the weapons of mass destruction pictured on the toy's packaging.
Joshua Davis at Wired - The New Diamond Age - if you've got lots of money invested in diamonds, read this article and consider whether it's time to sell. Or maybe it's already too late, now that Gemesis is growing "Cultured Diamonds" in a Sarasota factory. [wes]
"This is very rare stone," he says, almost to himself, in thickly accented English. "Yellow diamonds of this color are very hard to find. It is probably worth 10, maybe 15 thousand dollars."
"I have two more exactly like it in my pocket," I tell him.
He puts the diamond down and looks at me seriously for the first time. I place the other two stones on the table. They are all the same color and size. To find three nearly identical yellow diamonds is like flipping a coin 10,000 times and never seeing tails.
"These are cubic zirconium?" Weingarten says without much hope.
"No, they're real," I tell him. "But they were made by a machine in Florida for less than a hundred dollars."
David Griffus at LewRockwell.com - My Day With the Housing Inspector - another liberty lover knuckles under to armed robbery by government goon. [lew]
After she had inspected the entire house and pointed out every minor flaw, she was "kind" enough to write us up for only eight violations instead of the actual twelve. She said to me, "You're lucky I am feeling generous today. Isn't that nice of me?"
Enraged that she would dare to think that she was doing me any sort of favor, I answered, "No, you are not nice at all. You coming into my house and forcing me at gunpoint to fix things that I did not deem necessary to repair is a violation of my fundamental property rights. If someone wants to trespass on our property and hurt themselves by falling down our stairs, then they are welcome to do so, but why should we be held responsible?! Considering this house is going to be bulldozed in less than a year, does it really make any sense for us to fix these things? I have had enough of power-hungry, wasteful people like you enumerating worthless commandments from the state and raping the truly productive members of society. Now, why don't you march back down to city hall with your other little morons and figure out some other ways to con the public into thinking that they will be safer by letting you steal from them. Next time, for the sake of expediency, just punch me in the face, take all of my money, and go on your merry little way, you stupid bureaucrat!"
OK...so I didn't really say that, but I wanted to...
