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Can I have a Grolsch now?
Viral marketing. Priceless.
Can I have a Grolsch now?

I’ve read a couple of his books, I’ve heard a few of his speeches. Professor A. C. Grayling is one of the good guys.
Why do the photographers do it? What drives them to take pictures like these? I’ll never know. I can only hope they never stop. The “media” are only too happy to promote the party line.
Wish you were here.
I hate spam. I hate spammers even more. No, wait – hate is too strong a feeling. I do not hate them, any more than I hate cockroaches and such. They bug me, but they’re part of the big picture – they’re here to stay. There’s nothing I can do about that, so I try to ignore them.
And then there’s fools. I have no tolerance for fools. So let me tell you a story.
Let us say there is this peace-loving guy who (hopefully) minds his own business. Let’s call him Basil Venitis. Whether you call him that or Vasilis Venitis, or even Βασίλης Βενίτης, it doesn’t really matter. This fellow is somewhat important to our story – but let’s try to leave him alone, shall we?
This story, like any good story, has a villain too. A villain with many names, and many faces. For all we know, this villain has many lackeys, millions even. But they all speak with one voice so, for the sake of the story, we’ll give the voice a single name. Let’s call it BV.
Now that the main characters are in place, let us begin.
BV loves, worships Basil Venitis. BV’s devotion matches no other – if not perhaps that of the common stalker or zealot. It is not only right and proper but his duty, indeed his very destiny, BV thinks, that he (she?) should do everything in its power to help the world uncover its eyes, shed its blindness, and see the greatness of Basil Venitis.
“Dude, who’s this Basil Venitis?”, I hear you ask. Damn your ignorance!
The Great Basil Venitis is one of the greatest minds in the history of western civilization! Seeing as there are 14 yahoo groups devoted to his ideas (if also to those of lesser scholars such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and Murray Rothbard), with tens of thousands of users each, I find it hard to believe that you have never heard of him.
Indeed, since he is considered “the most influential libertarian of our times” and the “best Athenian orator” by no less authorities than the lpedia.org and the libertarianwiki.org respectively, it is hard to believe you are not a venitist. If you call yourself libertarian, then you must at least adhere to some form of venitism (no, it’s not a disease!)
Certainly, you must have been taught his libertarian poetry at school. Remember this?
My heart belongs to Athens
Fair city of Venitis
Plato and Socrates
The city is so pretty
or this?
Give me Basil as a spice
Full of liberty and might
Real taste in my life
B. Venitis bring me light.
or this?
Nemesis of socialists
Is Basil Venitis
A hero supercapitalist
Athenian hard critic.
… No?
Come on, you must have attended a lecture by Wall Street legend Basil Venitis – he is, after all, next to Bill Gates, and George Soros, one of Tiptopsearch Center’s favorite lecturers. And as he charges €3000,- per speech, that says a lot. (It must be some sort of coincidence that this Center is located at Mr Venitis’s home address. A greater coincidence still that the Center and Mr Venitis have the same telephone number.)
Haven’t you at least read his best-selling book, “Making Big Money”? (Available at fine bookstores nowhere.)
No?
I don’t believe you… Are you a cryptovenitist? There’s no shame in declaring your venitism, brothers and sisters! Come out of the venitocloset!
The very same BV who has been spamming my domain with idiotic, conceited, nonsensical articles about venitism.
Why does he do it? Is this some elaborate scam? I don’t think so. Sadly, I just think this BV is a lunatic, if a very annoying one at that.
Truly remarkable.
… See, I new that “Black Swan” guy was up to no good.
By the way, you can view this on HD on youtube.
I can’t make the hills
The system is shot
I’m living on pills
For which I thank G-d
I followed the course
From chaos to art
Desire the horse
Depression the cart
I sailed like a swan
I sank like a rock
But time is long gone
Past my laughing stock
My page was too white
My ink was too thin
The day wouldn’t write
What the night pencilled in
My animal howls
My angel’s upset
But I’m not allowed
A trace of regret
For someone will use
What I couldn’t be
My heart will be hers
Impersonally
She’ll step on the path
She’ll see what I mean
My will cut in half
And freedom between
For less than a second
Our lives will collide
The endless suspended
The door open wide
Then she will be born
To someone like you
What no one has done
She’ll continue to do
I know she is coming
I know she will look
And that is the longing
And this is the bookfrom The Book Of Longing by Leonard Cohen.