Economists are about as useful as astrologers
Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).
~ Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Economists are about as useful as astrologers
Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).
~ Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
an absence of the ideological furniture on which the fact could sit
his failure to process the fact or incorporate it into his worldview seems to me most likely to reflect an absence of the ideological furniture on which the fact could sit.
via The Economist
Essentially, this country’s like the kids of crack addicts: they don’t have money for food ‘cause Mom and Dad blew it all gettin’ high.
Spending $67 billion for a single year of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while screaming insanity over $53 billion over six years for national rail system and the energy independance it helps bring.
via Rude Pundit
Luddites
“the Luddites were not thoughtless vandals opposing progress, but artisans concerned to preserve craft standards and appropriate rates of pay”
- Lee-Wright
Christ & Christians
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
~ Gandhi
data trumps intuition
accent the silly, downplay the ominous
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
– Edward Abbey
