Too often the official Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is cited as if it represented scientific certainty, rather than a committee-written compendium with widely varying mixtures of hard facts and fashionable speculations.
Here I share slightly random thoughts that cross my mind, as well as occasional links I like - feel free to add your thoughts too! Common themes - economics(my undergrad and possibly future graduate major), government(gets bad results from good people), and Pittsburgh or PA-related stuff. Also an occasional rant. Loosely speaking my politics are "conservative", "libertarian", or "classical liberal" (as in believing in freedom, not statism), but a few of my views may surprise.
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Reason 1,345,247 why I read Sowell so much
His unhesitating willingness to slaughter sacred cows, as exemplified by this quote from page 136 of The Einstein Syndrome:
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