From the late- and very-much-missed Rik Mayall (as Tory MP Alan B’stard):
“NHS waiting lists can be eradicated overnight by shutting down the health service, thereby killing poor people and wiping out poverty.”
Cruel? Yes. True? Also yes.
Category: QOTD
Quote Of The Day
I quote Insty a lot, I know, but at the end of it all, Glenn Reynolds is a very smart and wise man. Frankly (and I know he’s not interested, more’s the pity), our country needs him, and more like him, to be in a position of power rather than being a respected law professor at some university*.
Here’s what caught my eye recently:
“There was a time when I doubted the morality of Hiroshima, Tokyo, and Dresden. Watching the world today, I’m glad that our forebears had the courage and moral clarity that too many parts of our contemporary society lack.”
Asking for “moral clarity” in our current amoral power elite is far too big an expectation.
*I know, I know — to Glenn, UTenn isn’t just “some university”, but in relation to his stature, intellect and character, I’m afraid that to the rest of us, and to me in particular, it is.
Quote Of The Day
From Roger Kimball:
“Remember the ‘pipe bombs’ that were supposedly planted by ‘insurrectionists’ [on Jan 6 2020]? It turns out they were almost certainly dummy explosives planted by government agents.”
Yeah… funny how that investigation suddenly evaporated, and news reports thereof disappeared down Winston Smith’s memory hole tube.
By “funny” I mean like “watching your dog getting run over by a truck” funny.
Feel the burn…
Quote Of The Day
From The Divine Sarah:
“It’s not my fault that the people running all our intellectual institutions, including research, are morons studying to be idiots.”
Truer words were never spoken.
Quote Of The Day
From Hugh Grant’s mother:
“All Englishmen are permanently two gin and tonics under par. They need two gin and tonics to become human.”
So… I’m English, then? I did not know that about myself.
Quote Of The Day
From SOTI:
“I am not a fan of Cerakote, it feels like wearing a prophylactic.”
I can’t remember when last I fired a gun with a Cerakote finish, and that’s also true of the second half of the sentence.
There’s nothing like the feel of blued steel to the gloveless touch, and also the other thing.