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A Rare Bird, A Strange Duck, One Funky Blog
random thought of the moment:
It is time again to resurrect the wise and marvelous quote from Canon Sydney Smith, the great classical liberal and anti-interventionist in early nineteenth century England. When Lord Grey, the Prime Minister, was moving toward a foreign war, Sydney Smith wrote the following letter to Lady Grey, in 1832: ‘For God’s sake, do not drag me into another war! I am worn down, and worn out, with crusading and defending Europe, and protecting mankind; I must think a little of myself. I am sorry for the Spaniards - I am sorry for the Greeks - I deplore the fate of the Jews; the people of the Sandwich Islands are groaning under the most detestable tyranny; Baghdad is oppressed, I do not like the present state of the Delta; Tibet is not comfortable. Am I to fight for all these people? The world is bursting with sin and sorrow. Am I to be champion of the Decalogue, and to be eternally raising fleets and armies to make all men good and happy? We have just done saving Europe, and I am afraid the consequence will be, that we shall cut each other’s throats. No war, dear Lady Grey! - No eloquence; but apathy, selfishness, common sense, arithmetic! I beseech you, secure Lord Grey’s swords and pistols, as the housekeeper did Don Quixote’s armour. If there is another war, life will not be worth having.’
— Murray N. Rothbard, Notes on Iran, Afghanistan, etc.
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Do I Really Have to Love Spammers?
I'm supposed to love my enemies, and spammers are enemies, so I guess I have to love them. Crap. Why, Lord, why? Spammers are so evil. *sigh*
The related problems of spam and splogs have been getting worse recently. I've had to up the security ante. Here's a list of the anti-spam plugins I'm using. If […]
Leeching and Scraping
Those Wordpress users interested in stopping sploggers and their ilk from scraping/leeching their content might like this plugin. AntiLeech helps prevent content theft by sploggers. AntiLeech does not prevent the splogger bots from accessing your site. It produces a fake set of content especially for them that includes links back to your site (and […]
Scalia's Sicilian Salute to Spammers
OK, so Justice Scalia was gesturing to reporters, a subspecies of homo sapiens slightly less annoying and more evolved than spammers. Still, the gesture sums up neatly my feeling about spammers, especially now that Blue Security has wussed out.
"Israeli anti-spam firm Blue Security is ceasing operations after a crippling series of attacks launched against its […]
Spammers Disprove Evolution
No, the title of this post does not mean that I've joined either the Creationist or ID camps. However, spammers certainly seem to be an evolutionary step backwards. It's a shame spamming doesn't give one leprosy. At least that would reduce their chances of reproducing.
Antispam list gets spammed
"They may've signed up […]
Wordpress Spam
Jerry has informed me that he's been getting some rather nasty porn spam that's supposedly coming from this blog. If anyone else has received any spam from wordpress@[this domain], please let me know.
God help the first spammer I meet in person…
