One Of The Rules I Try To

All This Talk Of Using Tax Policy To 'assess Social Costs'...what A Dumb Idea. The Only Way To Stop Polluters Is To Put Them Against Walls And Shoot Them.

In Contrast, Markets - Oft Mythologized As "natural" Are The Most Unnatural Things Going. Libertarians Will Tell You "market Laws Are Laws Of Nature", What Baloney. Markets - And The Other Great Modernist Cornucopian Tools - Are Magnificent Wealth Generating Machines, Built Ad-hoc, Through Trial And Error, Constantly Fine-tuned And Refined, Tinkered, Adjusted.

You Don't Have Conversations With Microprocessors. You Tell Them What To Do, Then Helplessly Watch The Disaster When They Take You Literally!

A Neurosis Defends Itself By Coming Up With Rationalizations To Explain Away Bizarre Behavior.

Science Fiction Is The Jazz Of Literature.