[T]he superstition that the budget must be balanced at all times, once it is debunked, takes away one of the bulwarks that every society must have against expenditure out of control. . . . [O]ne of the functions of old-fashioned religion was to scare people by sometimes what might be regarded as myths into behaving in a way that long-run civilized life requires.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
New blogs on the blogroll
Since I'm here, I'll mention a few of my friends' and frequent commenters' blogs so they get some Technorati love: The Apostate, Chicken Girl, The Choice is Now, Disgusted Beyond Belief, Geoff Arnold, micah.cowan.name, Often Right, Rarely Correct, Only in America, Plognark, Thalesian Fools, Thoughts from a Sandwich and A Whore in the Temple of Reason. (If I've left you off the list, it's only because I'm a dumbass. Leave a comment and give me the 20 lashes with a wet noodle I justly deserve.)
Update: 20 lashes to me for missing A Blog from Hell. Ouch!
And of course I cannot fail to mention the heroes of blogtopia (yes, skippy coined the phrase), skippy the bush kangaroo and the incomparable Jon Swift.
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Thanks for the shout-out.
ReplyDeleteDidn't know you were a friend of Geoff Arnold. You may find this wetmachine entry, about the time Geoff and I went to dinner with Douglas Hofstadter, to amuse:
http://www.wetmachine.com/item/272
Much obliged for the linky gold, no apologies necessary, but...just a minor detail, that's oocRadio, acronymically signifying my nom de clavier, OutOfContext and the podcast for which it was created. Not the catchiest of names, but it's all I've got to work with...
ReplyDeleteGeoff and I never met in person, but we comment on each other's blogs.
ReplyDeleteooc: D'oh! Fixed!
ReplyDeleteWoo! Thanks for the link love. :)
ReplyDeleteHey, thanks for the links. I recognize some past (and present?) IIDB denizens there. Cheers!
ReplyDeleteHeathen Dan (aka SecularPinoy)