MOOSERIDER magazine: Shopping in Grim Times

Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Monday, March 23, 2020

Shopping in Grim Times

The items that people buyout seem silly: Every kind of tomato sauce and pasta, all paper goods, frozen vegetables, ice cream (for eating while setting around), breakfast cereal (for kids at home from school and constipated oldsters), bananas one day (but back the next and greener).

Toilet paper is the most sought after item of all. I never makes the shelves. It tends to be the poorest quality, not quite white and looks like it may have splinters. It is much like the only toilet paper you could get in Russia years ago, Maybe still?

Statistically chances of getting the virus are really slim (.000012%), and death is almost out of the question. Unfortunately the virus seems able to seek out the most susceptible. Sometimes it runs in families. Other times it is in old age homes that are poorly administered.