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When I make a joke, it doesn't harm anyone; you can take it or leave it. But when Congress makes a joke, it's a law.
Will Rogers (attrib)
...and in the same vein:-
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
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from Samizdata.net.
You should see an ID card like a passport in-country.
Meg Hillier MP, the minister responsible for the scheme, to the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee, today.
I don't know which is worse - that Labour should see internal passports as a good idea, or that they are so oblivious to their history and implications.
How long before "Papers please" becomes a commonplace on our streets - probably without the please? How long before the people of this country begin to see the Police, not as citizens in uniform but as an occupying army?
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No posts for a while and this is unlikely to change soon because of a combination of personal and family issues. Watch this space...
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"What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun."
Dundee, 10 October 1908
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Found via my namesake on Crooked Timber. I think he's right - don't try this at Paddington...
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