Comment Re:Piketty (Score 1) 41
I dropped track on Bundy when he went all Robert Byrd, sorry.
Comment Re:What is one specific LIE by Marx? (Score 1) 41
The hell. You say.
Comment Re: Maybe not extinction... (Score 2) 608
If you're going to argue that the DARPA protocols informing the Internet are some kind of anti-capitalist triumph, fine. Keep in mind that you also just bought the Military-Industrial Complex and all of the wars the U.S. has fought. So ya got a lot of artillery and missiles goin' for ya.
Comment Re:Maybe not extinction... (Score -1, Troll) 608
Only if we continue to H8 the capitalism that drives real improvement, in favor of some nebulous "change" that seems to involve a lot of un-repayable debt.
Comment Re:Sure... (Score 1) 41
As with "A Pimple's History of the United States" by Zinn, I'll get a used copy. Wouldn't want to support this tripe with a full-price purchase. The reverse psychology play of "sticking the capital to the Socialist" is better enjoyed in theory.
Comment Re:What is one specific LIE by Marx? (Score 1) 41
My one-line summary of Marx: "The Kingdom of God, hold the God."
We're in more of Randian dystopia, BTW.
We're in more of Randian dystopia, BTW.
Comment Re:Lol wut (Score 1) 128
Oh! Now he wants it to "sound good". Give 'im an inch, he's taking a yard.
Journal Journal: Piketty is sort of a modern false prophet 41
The book that is all the rage on the left is a dense economic tome called Capital in the 21st Century by a French and Marxist economics professor called Thomas Piketty. It epitomizes cargo cult economics well blended with the vice of greed and a disregard for the whole "thou shalt not covet" thing that somebody important once warned us about. It also has a lo
Comment Two related points (Score 1) 1
(a) The modern Borg mentality doesn't want anyone "feeling bad" for anything. The Peter Pan principle of eternal childhood helps keep the peasants on the plantation.
(b) Finding some genetic basis to blame a "feeling bad" event upon is a source of tremendous political power.
(b) Finding some genetic basis to blame a "feeling bad" event upon is a source of tremendous political power.
Comment Re:savvis (Score 1) 3
I was trying to point someone to /. last night, and it wasn't working.
Comment Re:Locavores! (Score 1) 11
Has Monsanto bought the BLM?
Comment Re:Anybody know of a good (Score 1) 11
I still thought it a great non-sequitur.
Comment Re:re; You Should? (Score 1) 600
Wait for the next round of papers to examine the shiny new ideas of universal age climate change.
Comment Re:Difference between erratic & erotic (Score 2) 600
Pretty sure the sidereal movement of the Earth is going to cause a "sunrise" in a few hours, irrespective of the state of this unresolvable argument.
Comment Locavores! (Score 1) 11
And the Amish shall inherit the North American Earth.
