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This short essay by Richard Fernandez, on the return of the notion of blasphemy seems to fit here too. http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/10/21/fear-and-loathing-in-the-21st-century/
Commented Oct 25, 2010 on Quote of the Day (5) at davidthompson
Quote of the Day (5)
Thinking, it will be recalled, is the activity one performs before one has arrived at the answer. Fabian Tassano ponders dangerous thought. And how to prevent it: A mediocracy encourages people to react personally. Instead of considering whether something is true, people ask themselves, “how doe...
Wow, just . . .wow. Swift had nothing on these folks. Of course, he was aware of the fact that he was writing satire.
Commented Feb 14, 2010 on Comedy Economics at davidthompson
Comedy Economics
Courtesy of the New Economics Foundation, allegedly “the UK’s leading independent think tank.” The NEF was founded in 1986 and its members have spent the intervening years carefully blueprinting their socialist utopia. Here’s what they’ve come up with. “Our consumption habits are squandering th...
I've been all over the world and hiked through many, many National Parks here in the U.S., but no place has ever left me as awe-struck as Yosemite.
Commented Feb 3, 2010 on Yosemite at davidthompson
Yosemite
At dusk, after a winter storm, 2004. Photographed by Stefan Tarzan.
Dr. Bob Higgs - prescient as always:
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2100
Notice the date, Sept., 2007.
Commented Dec 9, 2009 on Peer Review and Climate-Gate at Coordination Problem
Peer Review and Climate-Gate
|Peter Boettke| Greg Ransom asks for my opinion on peer review in light of the climate-gate controversy. I fear that my defense of the academic community of economics has caused a wrong impression. I never argued that academic research is a perfect process for rooting out error and promoting t...
Alex Berezow has another interesting take on Obama as "science President," though from a different angle.
http://nasblog.org/2009/11/24/they-blinded-us-with-science/
Commented Nov 26, 2009 on The Science President? at Coordination Problem
The Science President?
Steven Horwitz That's the title of this week's NBR blog entry. Here's the opening:During his campaign for the presidency, Barack Obama promised that, in contrast to his predecessor, his presidency would be a "science presidency." In his first year, Obama may well have taken some science more se...
Steve and Stephan,
I actually saw Dr. Rizzo's comment at Bob Murphy's blog. It said something about the shallowness of Palmer's understanding of ABCT. It is gone now. Don't know what that is about.
Rick
Commented Nov 2, 2009 on The Battle of the Toms at Coordination Problem
The Battle of the Toms
Steve Horwitz Since we haven't had a good post on intra-Austrian issues in awhile, I thought I'd weigh in on the quickly escalating Battle of the Toms taking place out in the libertarian blogosphere. Said battle began yesterday when Tom Palmer of Cato and Atlas posted a review of Johan Norberg'...
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it." - H.L. Mencken
Commented Sep 30, 2009 on The State Has Many Teats at davidthompson
The State Has Many Teats
Suggestions for the proposed series of Classic Sentences from the Guardian have started to roll in: A consensus in the making: that a progressive future is the zeitgeist; that neoliberal neo-imperialism is death. The above is from the mind of Bea Campbell, whose contortions entertained us not s...
It is a great insight. I would say the same of the modern art world.
Commented Jul 21, 2009 on Best Sentence I've Read Today (and perhaps in a long while) at Coordination Problem
Best Sentence I've Read Today (and perhaps in a long while)
Commenting on the excessive preoccupation of modern social scientists with formalism and positivism, this prominient sociologists argues that "they have found out nothing of significance about any aspect of social life, since in science as in love a concentration on technique is quite likely to ...
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