More reasons to stand around wringing ones hand and talking about the need for tough diplomacy.
It cost billions of dollars to make and it can be damaged by a piece of bread?
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This might be next week’s essay of the week. But if you have the time, you might want to read it now. The question of the hour is who told what and why. You can’t believe anything you read in such articles and yet it might all be true.
From Megan McArdle:“California has come up with a novel way to close this year’s budget gaps: it’s increasing withholding from the paychecks of its citizens.”
You can leave, but you can never talk. What would happen if a church tried to slap such a legal injunction on a pastor?
Lines that make you lose respect for Scientists: “”Early paleontologists recognised the distinction between adults and juveniles, but people have lost track of looking at ontogeny – how the individual develops – when they discover a new fossil.”
Rant of the Week: 11/1/09-11/7/09
This week’s rant of the week is “Going Norm Galt.”
Essay of the Week: 11/1/09-11/7/09
Did you know that there is lots of good evidence questioning whether the flu vaccine does any good? Did you know that in spite of this fact most of the medical profession considers it unethical to test the flu vaccine the way that other medical drugs are tested?
These facts come from this essay from Atlantic Monthly that should be required reading for those who buy into the flu vaccine hype. Most of the rest of us know from our own experience that it does not do much good.
Heaven forfend
You have sunk pretty low when a popular movie can tell you why what you are doing is a bad idea. In this case, extrapolating a crime from a fact.
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We are doomed because we are unable to learn our lesson.
A scandal. That last part of the article calls out the real scandal.
Computer games cure stroke. Sort of.
Essay of the Week: 10/18/09-10/24/98
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Using the Air Force to fight winter.
$1.4 Trillion dollars worth of new debt. And that is just getting started.
College on YouTube
At the college that I went to, most of the faculty had a very progressive, liberal, fault-finding perspective. Most of the students, too. And those that didn’t were generally arrogant and self-assured about the benefits of conservative self-centered self-help.
Now you can go to college on YouTube.
Some of this criticism is spot on. Some of it is ludicrous. Does this commentator honestly believe that all transactions everywhere are always mutually beneficial? Anyone who does not have an MBA and has worked a few jobs should know better. Exploitation is real. Capitalism does a lot better with the “worst form of commerce, except for the alternatives” line of defense than it does with the “does no harm” line of defense.
There are other such things in the commentary to complain about; other blind assertions, fiat declarations of universal rules and benefits, and so forth.
But you know what? The drivel being commented on doesn’t actually deserve better.
I was going to recommend the commentary for any kids young enough not to have experience seeing through liberal hate speech, but I am not sure I know any kids that are both capable of understanding the more complex words and sentences used and also not capable of understanding the inadequacy of the woman’s presentation. So now I am just posting it so you can get disgusted. Enjoy.