It’s sort of turning into a telephone game, like this piece:
Simberg, an aerospace engineer, says a new law granting the United States conditional permission to claim extraterrestrial land is internationally legal. His view: failure of the 1979 Moon Treaty to get even one signature nullifies the Outer Space Treaty.
a) The Moon Treaty has fourteen countries who have acceded to it.
b) I didn’t say that the Moon Treaty’s failure nullifies the OST.
Other than that, they get it completely right.
Is it time to demolish HUD? Long past time, I’d say.
In which he ignorantly bashes libertarians:
I’m not going to lecture you about Jeff Bezos either, although I do want to note that he came out of a hedge fund and he’s ostensibly a libertarian; these aspects of his background make me uneasy, because in my experience they tend to be found in conjunction with a social-darwinist ideology that has no time for social justice, compassion, or charity. (When you hear a libertarian talking about “disruption” and “innovation” what they usually mean is “opportunities to make a quick buck, however damaging the long-term side effects may be”. Watch for the self-serving cant and the shout-outs to abstractions framed in terms of market ideology.)
Emphasis mine. Jonah Goldberg, hit this guy with a cluebat.
I report on the latest Alan Boyle piece over at Open Market, with a bonus comment from Glenn Reynolds.
The other economically ignorant Paul (Krugman) loses a bet. It’s useful to note that Paul Ehrlich’s partner in economic ignorance was John Holdren, the current president’s science advisor.
An amazing chart.
Is it done for a generation?
Sure looks like it to me. And it’s not good news personally, seeing as we’re currently burdened with three of them.
I agree that Romney suffers, as do many Republicans, from confusion between being pro-business and pro-free enterprise.
A primer for Barack Obama. He, and the Democrats in general, badly need one, but they probably won’t even understand it.