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Young, Hip and Conservative: a skeptical blog: An international flowering of trade
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Thursday, February 12, 2015. An international flowering of trade. Alex Tabarrok's Valentine's Day video is a take-off of Leonard Read's "I, Pencil" and a great lesson on spontaneous order around meeting human needs. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). An intro to "Buy Local". First time readers may want to get caught up on what's wrong with the "Buy Local" movement by clicking here. View my complete profile. BlackLivesMatter doesnt itself matter. The dead concept of cyberbullying. A Right Wing Atheist.
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Young, Hip and Conservative: a skeptical blog: I'm not giving Rand Paul a pass on vaccines
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015. I'm not giving Rand Paul a pass on vaccines. I recently rewatched Carol Tavris's 2011 talk from The Amazing Meeting. Towards the ends she talked about when a friend does something terrible we tend to minimize the sin or end the friendship, but she then shared a quotation from Shimon Peres when he was asked to comment about a gaffe made by his friend Ronald Reagan. I can accept Rand Paul's position on the mandatory nature, but then I learned during the same interview he said v...
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Young, Hip and Conservative: a skeptical blog: Obama's most frustrating economic statement of 2015 (so far)
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015. Obama's most frustrating economic statement of 2015 (so far). A good friend of mine who studies political science has been trying to convince me that President Barack Obama is a moderate. My friend knows more than I do on this topic so I take him seriously, but I just can't get the idea to gel, mostly because the president makes statements like the one he just did about Staples Inc. and the Affordable Care Act. This is a very telling answer, and it tells me above all else th...
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Young, Hip and Conservative: a skeptical blog: "The oppressive chocolate capitalists"
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Saturday, February 14, 2015. The oppressive chocolate capitalists". This is not a parody, but an actual message written by a group of bitter Marxists against Valentine's Day:. The blood-soaked conspiracy of Valentine’s Day, driven by the oppressive chocolate capitalists, has arrived once again. In order to create a brighter future, we call for solidarity among our unloved comrades, so that we may demonstrate in resolute opposition to Valentine’s Day and the romantic industrial complex. The oppressive cho...
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Young, Hip and Conservative: a skeptical blog: Outrage culture is to blame for boring politics
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Monday, February 16, 2015. Outrage culture is to blame for boring politics. Politicians give terrible pre-scripted interviews not merely because focus-group testing works so well, but because speaking off the cuff is too risky with partisan opponents ready to twist everything they say. That's Matthew Yglesias's point in his recent piece. About the response to his interview with President Obama. When they talked, the president said:. Two years ago Steve Novella wrote. Before you set out to criticize someo...
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Young, Hip and Conservative: a skeptical blog: Raise your standards, don't lower them
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Monday, February 2, 2015. Raise your standards, don't lower them. From time to time, I find myself rereading Ken White's brilliant piece entitled "Ken's Law. It's about the idea that awfulness among ones opponents does not excuse awfulness among ones allies. As I reread this four-year-old essay, I find myself struggling to live up to its lessons. It's tempting alright, but we have to fight that primal urge. As Ken wrote:. The other side did much worse! And yet we know, on some level, that this is a fooli...
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Young, Hip and Conservative: a skeptical blog: A pox on both your houses
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Friday, February 6, 2015. A pox on both your houses. Feminst commentator Anita Sarkeesian is being honored by the Harvard Humanist Community as the person of the year for 2014. A lot of my secular friends are opposed to it, but I completely endorse her nomination. Not as a compliment to Sarkeesian, but as an insult to humanism. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). An intro to "Buy Local". First time readers may want to get caught up on what's wrong with the "Buy Local" movement by clicking here.
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Young, Hip and Conservative: a skeptical blog: Public counter pressure
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Friday, February 20, 2015. I got excited when I saw the following sentence linked on Twitter. Finally, I thought, a company is taking a brave stance instead of caving to the pressure of whiners. Sorry, we have a general policy against firing people based on social media campaigns. We're against digital mobs.". But then when I clicked the link. If only collective bitterness could be coordinated. Low threshold for outrage. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). An intro to "Buy Local". View my complete profile.
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Young, Hip and Conservative: a skeptical blog: The legend of infinite wealth
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013. The legend of infinite wealth. In the introduction for the game Borderlands, narrator Marcus Kincaid shares the legend of the vault, which he says contains alien technology, power and infinite wealth. This idea stuck out to me, that a tangible vault could contain an unlimited supply of gold and jewels or items that could be redeemed for an unrestrained amount of wealth. On it's face it was impossible. The concept clearly came from puffery and careless exaggeration. While being...
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Young, Hip and Conservative: a skeptical blog: Good riddance to an enemy of speech
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015. Good riddance to an enemy of speech. Is there something about working in an American university that kills the part of the brain that understands free speech? Last month NPR's Ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos stepped down and his successor posted his final column. I do not know if American courts would find much of what Charlie Hebdo does to be hate speech unprotected by the Constitution, but I know—hope? He's endorsing blasphemy laws? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
