Well, the anti-war folks are always fighting the last anti-war.
Quotations
Patca’s Law
Commentator PatCA said the following in a comment on Ann Althouse’s blog.
In today’s world, everyone will get their “15 minutes” of victimhood…
I vote we christen this Patca’s Law (suggested pronunciation pat-ka).
You know you’re living in a wealthy and compassionate society when people compete over who gets to claim the most victimization.
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Related post: Angie’s Law
Quote of the Day
Religion is the illusion that there is a net over the abyss.
A comforting thought, but you pay for it. The net is not for everybody, only the ones who submit to the will of God. To save your soul, you have to give it up.
I’ll keep mine.
Quote of the Day
“We have not released giant badgers in Basra, and nor have we been collecting eggs and releasing serpents into the Shatt al-Arab river,” Major David Gell told reporters.
Cue the Monty Python references.
Quote of the Day
Reductio ad absurdum done right.
The Upside of Income Inequality
By Gary S. Becker and Kevin M. Murphy
From the May/June 2007 Issue of American.com
For many, the solution to an increase in inequality is to make the tax structure more progressive—raise taxes on high-income households and reduce taxes on low-income households. While this may sound sensible, it is not. Would these same indi viduals advocate a tax on going to college and a subsidy for dropping out of high school in response to the increased importance of education? We think not. Yet shifting the tax structure has exactly this effect.