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I Love Internet Comments

Even if someone’s blog post or a news story drives you crazy, you can always skim the comments to see other people’s zingers. For example, take this WSJ story about all the experts and Nobel (Memorial) laureates who are defending the Fed’s “independnece” against Ron Paul’s pitchforked legions. (HT2 Bob Roddis who got it from […]

Potpourri

* I have been saying for years that pennies are stupid. I don’t pick up pennies (unless I dropped them and it would look like litter). If you disagree, what about a proposal to introduce a new coin that had the value of 1/1000th of a dollar bill? You can agree that would be dumb, […]

"Fear Your Government, Not Your Neighbor"

That’s not an actual quote, but I think it sums up this short video by Sean Malone:

Citizens Sign Petition for Five Years of 100% Inflation

I only watched the first 2 minutes, but this was pretty funny. (HT2 Danaver for sending me the Mish link.) Insert Scott Sumner joke here.

The Benefits of Procrastination: The Economics of Geo-Engineering

I don’t think this EconLib article will get me on Joe Romm’s Christmas card list. An excerpt: Many critics of geo-engineering overlook an important fact: there is a gain from procrastination. In some of their expositions, they argue, implicitly and sometimes explicitly, that because humans will eventually have to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions anyway, we might […]

Why Are We So Sure CRU Was Hacked?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the main reason we are “sure” that the CRU emails and code were hacked that…the CRU people told us that’s what happened? (Well that, and the fact that everyone for two weeks has been referring to them as “hacked” and/or “stolen” emails?) Check out this news story in […]

Climategate Potpourri

* Lew Rockwell on how the Left was diverted from its noble mission of opposing wars and protecting civil liberties. (Rockwell also passes on this story: US creationists defend the Climategate scientists!) * Clive Crook has a similar take to mine. * Because of Crook, Megan McArdle also starts to thinking that maybe there is […]

This Sounded Funny to Me

“But first, a word about policy. There is absolutely no reason that I can come up with not to try an expansionary monetary policy now. If my views of money are correct, that policy will not work, but neither will it cause any harm.” — Arnold Kling, December 6, 2009.