Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Tribalism, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Aug 23rd, 2017
Via an old friend: it has been the alt-right that has most effectively used postmodern ideas to “deconstruct” what it sees as a distinctly liberal hegemony That was always the major criticism of postmodernism I was familiar with, that there is no reason the very ideas could not be turned on themselves, especially if they […]
Posted in Tribalism on Aug 23rd, 2017
Via Jerry Coyne, 1305, William Wallace (FREEEDOM!) was executed for high treason; and by “executed” I mean hanged until he was nearly dead, emasculated, disemboweled with his intestines burned in front of him while he was still alive, and then decapitated. People were cruel in those days.
Posted in Economic Illiteracy on Aug 23rd, 2017
Among the many things in life that I have never said, “man, I regret spending time on THAT!” is reading Jonathan Swift. Here’s a delightful little ditty: Big fleas have little fleas Upon their backs to bite ’em And little fleas have lesser fleas And so ad infinitum Actually, the ditty above is from mathematician Augustus […]
