Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Environment, Religion on Oct 4th, 2013
I enjoy reading the environmental magazines, especially for nuggets of sciency-goodness like this: Bees can’t find flowers because of your car … As a species, we are not doing right by bees. They work so, so hard to pollinate the plants that form the basis for human existence, and, at every junction, we try to […]
Posted in If I Really Hated the Poor ..., Politics, Religion on Oct 2nd, 2013
Remember, I am a retired blogger, so this is way shorter than it deserves to be. Regardless of your political affiliation, there is one aspect of the Obama Presidency that should be of enormous concern to all of us? What is that? It is the President’s leadership on issues of race, class and poverty in […]
Posted in Environment, Religion, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Sep 23rd, 2013
Remembering that I have retired from blogging (meaning that the post below should be many pages long including a lot more research, most of which I have tucked into various class presentations anyway), here was a lovely article that I had posted to my Facebook timeline the other day. Perhaps I am being too harsh. The […]
Posted in Economic Illiteracy, media, Methodology, Religion on Sep 14th, 2013
I hope one day many of you will have the pleasure of visiting a college class. And not just any college class, but one in which students are about to hear good news about some particular topic. I mean it. Good news. Why do I wish for you to see this episode? Because if I […]
Posted in Environment, If I Really Hated the Poor ..., Religion, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Jul 12th, 2013
He was of course asking me to sign a petition asking for my support of the continued fracking ban in New York. When I asked him what the greatest health risks demonstrated from fracking were, he said he did not know, but that he thought that fracking chemicals seeping into groundwater were a problem. First […]
Posted in Environment, Religion, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Mar 16th, 2013
In this week’s dose of fatuity, we are alerted to the Union of Concerned Scientists voting a winner of the political cartoon of the year. Classy! You know the world has gone mad when “Scientists” are using verbal attacks rather than using science to attack critics. But that’s about all they’ve got. It’s certainly all […]
Posted in Religion, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Mar 8th, 2013
Here is an absolutely spot on piece from Tyler Cowen: But I am unhappy when that broom is used to sweep some very important underlying issues under the carpet. The insistence on a sensible middle position, while true, is very often a cloak for partisan reframing of the issue itself and a somewhat Orwellian forgetting […]
Posted in Central Planning, Religion on Feb 23rd, 2013
Here is a treat from Tim Harford’s book, Adapt: The first major worker strike in Soviet history took place in 1989 when 250,000 coal miners walked away from their jobs. Part of the protest was about grotesquely dangerous conditions: the death rate for Soviet miners was 15 to 20 TIMES higher than it was for their […]
Posted in Environment, ethical foundations, Religion on Feb 5th, 2013
(1) Sierra Club to promote “peaceful civil disobedience.” That’s beyond oxymoron. If they promote steps to prevent legitimate business to operate, it ain’t peaceful. If you got past the title of the press release, you probably should have stopped once you read this nonsense (i.e. go check out the science on this stuff, dear bastions […]
Posted in Flotsam and Jetsam, Religion, Voluntary Society, Welfare State on Feb 5th, 2013
Without comment, else it might be my last. (1) Climate change is going to so devastate Rochester that it will as intolerable as living in … Richmond, VA. Go see the movie. (2) Handed out at a nearby Catholic parish, remember that we used to pass a basket around a second time during mass to […]
