MOOSERIDER magazine: Elaine...Elaine, Lame

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, May 31, 2010

Elaine...Elaine, Lame

Ever since I saw "The Graduate" when it first came out in 1967 (I saw it in '68), it was always a mystery to me as to what any appeal the Dustin Hoffman character, Benjamin, held for the mother and daughter duo who found him attractive. He represented the ultimate pampered weenie from the Baby-Boomers, the Weenie Generation, my generation.

The Boomers have spawned a bunch of anti-males who register to vote as democrats, want gun control, claim metro-sexuality (why not just bi--- hell, just gay, and not all of a sudden) and have engendered a new batch of effeminate "males" that are now archetypal as found in films such as the "Twilight" series.

I was absolutely amazed when my thoughts about it were broached in the film "Barcelona," although with irony, coming from the imperfect, wounded and now physically as well as mentally myopic, Fred.