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David Friedman Hits the Nail on the Head

Riddle of the year: How is a public school like the U.S. Post Office?

Answer: It’s inefficient, it costs more each year than the last, it is a perpetual subject of complaint about which nothing is ever done. It is, in short, a typical government monopoly.

Source: The Machinery of Freedom (1973). David Friedman

Biden, Brezhnev, and Other Buffoons

An anti-Bezhnev joke (but one can substitute brain-dead Biden and timely characters just as well):

During Brezhnev’s visit to England, Prime Minister Thatcher asked the guest, “What is your attitude to Churchill?” “Who is Churchill?” Brezhnev said. Back in the embassy, the Soviet envoy said, “Congratulations, comrade Brezhnev, you’ve put Thatcher in her place. She will not ask stupid questions any more.” “And who is Thatcher?” Brezhnev said.

What Goyim Mean by ‘Equality Before the Law’

It’s in the Torah, so Goyim (and their Jewish epigones) give the principle lip service to look good.

There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.

– Nicholas Nickleby

As we have written in the past:

“The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”

– Anatole France

This may be updated today thus:

“Likewise, The Law, in its majestic equality, permits the poor, as well as the crony rich, to draft regulations to hurt competition, to beg for corporate welfare on Wall Street, and to steal bread from those of fixed income by debasing currency and cartelizing banking.”