Bryan Caplan has bet $300 that Europe, and every state of Europe, will survive to 2020. I don’t make these kind of bets, because outcomes tend to be ill defined. What constitutes surviving? But I expect that around 2040, people will look back to around 2020, and say that some substantial portion of Europe, fell …
Month: April 2008
The first greenie famine
The twentieth century was the century of the red famines. Now, in the twenty first century, we are seeing the first greenie famine. Let us hope it will not be the first of many. The red famines killed an extraordinary number of people during the twentieth century – famines caused in part by carelessness, in …
Envy and covetousness
The roots of self hatred are envy and covetousness. If one belongs to a successful group, one compares oneself to others of that group. Inevitably, some of that group are more successful in some ways than than oneself, and so …
Greenie morons
even if you are a highly qualified scientist with a great big pile of academic credentials, there is something about being a greenie that causes your brains to dribble out your ears as slime
Oil hits $120 a barrel
When capitalism screws up badly, as is happening right now, people are inclined to listen to demagogues who tell them that if only the demagogue got to make decisions, instead of those wicked capitalists, all would be well.
Happiness is a warm gun
Reasons gun owners are happier.
Texas protective services commits perjury again
We now know that “Sarah†is a thirty three year old democratic party political activist. What do you think the prospects are that Child Protective Services will be charged with perjury?
Liberty needs to survive
Liberty always costs blood, and freedom will always require forms of social organization capable of killing people in substantial numbers.
Are Palestinians mad dogs, or crazy like foxes?
In order to get their share of the gravy, Hamas has to prove they are even crazier than the PLO. Stubborn intransigence by the Palestinians needs to be met by cutting off the payoffs and by killing the bagmen who attempt to make payoffs, and if that fails, by imposing on Muslims rex talionis the same conditions as are imposed on Christians in most Muslim countries, not by making ever bigger payoffs.
Famine
Tractors are just as attractive to tyrants, demagogues, and terrorists as pipelines are.