Month: July 2012

Charles Pierce at Esquire posted a screen cap of a tweet from Governor Scott Walker (R-WI): Imagine if Noah needed help from the government to build the ark. It might have never been built. A couple of things: It was never built. Can’t you recognize a fairy tale when you hear one? In the fairy… Continue reading The Greatest Mind in Wisconsin Politics

I will continue yesterday’s theme of “people who brilliantly present spectacularly wrong ideas and are richly rewarded.” MoDo, Bobo, and, if you remove the word “brilliantly,” Ross Douthat have all failed their way up the Old Grey Lady’s mothball-laced bloomers. True, Maureen Dowd is only wrong two thirds of the time. But David Brooks is… Continue reading No Consequence for Wrongness

I have read some really interesting books on economics lately. It seems that my economic theories have been fleshed out completely and in rigorous fashion by great thinkers of the past. More importantly, however, I feel fully vindicated in my thoughts on Milton Friedman. His theories are complete horseshit. They are shoveled largely from the… Continue reading On Milton Friedman

Fooling All of the People Some of the Time A Long Short Story David Einhorn 426 pages Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated, 2010 This is not the sort of book I can imagine myself having chosen. Yet when I had finished my last book, there it was. I started in, expecting it to be every… Continue reading Review: Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short Story