- Harvey Mansfield’s jeremiad against economics is essential reading (h/t aldaily.com). fta – Overconfidence in overcoming chance is the way of life recommended by economists. It is the way of life known as progress by liberals and as growth by conservatives, who are secretly united by overconfidence in their knowledge of the future which they describe diversely and call by different names.
- Also from the Weekly Standard & via aldaily.com (can’t believe I missed this): the problem with Facebook is that it’s boring. I think that critique is exactly right, and I’m not exactly real entertaining myself.
- In case you’re interested in empirical approaches to politics, here’s a look at the looming Specter/Toomey primary race in PA.
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Muahahaha, I hate facebook. I’m on Facebook, though, have been for years now, I joined before it went “public” and I’ve always hated it. I can never vocalize quite why, the aldaily.com link does a pretty good job of speaking for me, though.
Facebook whores are icky, but please don’t take offense- my husband is one of them, I am relatively accepting.