"If you voted for Obama ... seek urologic care
elsewhere," posts an honest-to-goodness physician. Is he or she a GraniteGrok reader? (Skip has warmed my heart quoting the Randian philosopher Tibor Machan and the great F. Bastiat; his pamphlet The Law is tremendous.)
I don't know why Skip & Chan are so hard on supporters of the left. In a democracy envy becomes most important, that's why not knowing economics is no impediment to having firm convictions. "The rich," after all, can pay for all of it! Most of it, anyway. Here's Bertrand Russell, that left-wing atheist mathematician of yesteryear, writing when clarity was more important than PR:
I don't know why Skip & Chan are so hard on supporters of the left. In a democracy envy becomes most important, that's why not knowing economics is no impediment to having firm convictions. "The rich," after all, can pay for all of it! Most of it, anyway. Here's Bertrand Russell, that left-wing atheist mathematician of yesteryear, writing when clarity was more important than PR:
Steve Sailer wonders aloud why no investment bankers who dented the economy to the tune of a cool trillion haven't been prosecuted. After all, federal prosecutors jailed Martha Stewart for something different than what they were originally investigating her. There are indeed a lot of laws out there....when great changes occur the theories which justify them are always a camouflage for passion. And the passion that has given driving force to democratic theories is undoubtedly the passion of envy.
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