Blogging from inside the Vatican (inside St Peter’s, actually), because I can - though I hope my grandparents aren’t rolling in their graves. The Pope is giving his New Year’s Eve Mass. What a spectacle.
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We depart for Italy in the middle of the night tonight. As I’m busy with social stuff between now and then (with a couple of hours of sleep, if I manage to pack quickly), I doubt I’ll get to the rest of my 2005 highlight list. So here’s an abbreviated version:
August: We went to Amsterdam […]
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This one may also qualify for quote of the life.
As time passes, I keep thinking, “This is wonderful. This is so great. It’s hard to believe this could get better.”
And then it does.
-Jessamyn North
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Actually, this may be the quote of the life: I agree that much with Hillary Johnson on this one.
[E]ntrepreneurialism is the social “technology” that will eventually replace the political systems currently operating so-very-nominally in the Third World. [T]he most important “post-political” action we can take is any action that abets the distributed, economic engine with […]
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I’m happy about a lot of things, but the service I get from Shavata isn’t one of them.
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As mentioned recently here, I am somewhat consumed lately by thoughts of all the things for which I have to be grateful. I can say without hesitation that a constant state of mind in which one is actively seeking things to be thankful for is hugely beneficial.
To that end, I really enjoyed this Patrick […]
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I’m going to try to finish up my 2005 highlights before we head to Italy for New Year’s Eve. In the meantime, I’ve revisited the moblog for the first time in nearly two months.
The table set for Christmas Eve lunch
Post-Mass cosiness in the Holly Bush, Hampstead
We feel better than we look
Making the most of the […]
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David Tebbutt did it and produced a handy guide to the whole process. I love my WordPress, and I think I may employ David’s tip about the Ultimate Tag Warrior plug-in.
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Here in the Hampstead/St John’s Wood/West Hampstead/Swiss Cottage/Belsize Park area, we are surrounded by rich, preachy, self-righteous socialists who shed many tears over the US’s rejection of the stupid Kyoto Agreement and lecture anyone who will listen about the environment. A great many of these jerks drive SUVs. Unsurprisingly, Coldplay’s Chris Martin is one of […]
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I’m supposed to be on holiday in France today. But I woke up with no voice and a serrated steak knife twisting around in my throat (at least that’s what it felt like), so I’m sitting in front of the computer at home. Good thing, because there’s some work that can’t wait for me to […]
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Socialism is about other people deciding what your priorities are. Whenever you hear a socialist talking about the need for more democracy, they are not lying but that is what they mean: Make everything political. No choices can be personal.
–Perry de Havilland
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Last night, I sat in the Groucho Club, surrounded by many clever, erudite, accomplished, famous (and, in some cases, utterly loathesome) individuals. But what got me really excited? Leaving the front door of the club at the same time that the father of the Dole Scums (TM the brilliant Easties) entered.
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From Samizdata:
[T]here is not much point trying to defend civilisation if we use barbaric methods.
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Nick Cohen writes in the New Statesman (which stupidly only allows people to read one story per day, for free, on their website):
Before you go to a left-wing meeting, brace yourself for the likelihood that everyone you meet in the hall will be standing on their head. Do not be surprised to see communists supporting […]
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