Search results

I'm not following on how this failed effort will punish Exxon for free speech. There is obviously something I don't know. What is it?

As nutty as this is, it's not dangerous, because it isn't going anyplace. It's just another example of how unhelpful politicizing scientific issues can be. George Will is getting a bit nuttier himself as he gets a bit older. [We are contemporaries so I am permitted to say this, knowing I am...

Again, you are making perfect sense.

This entire business represents to me the mind deadening effect of pernicious religion on, fortunately, a minority. They are largely, if politically involved, associated with the Republican political party, but they are vocal enough to damage the party in a serious way. The best thing the...

But many of us would go kicking and screaming if you tried to force us to be normal. And thank God for that. And that should mean a lot coming from an atheist!

Just for the sake of argument, Jem. Let's say every one can choose there sexual preference and that choice has nothing to do with DNA, "would that be wrong in your opinion?" I guess my question is basically the same as asking whether you think it is wrong for a person to identify with a sex...

When I was a kid I thought they came from Wilson's grocery store two blocks down the street, but now, as an adult, I realize that would be a poor answer to your question. This is just another of endless examples of how we are constantly being forced to change our thinking so long as we keep on...

Thanks for trying to read it anyway. If you do a search on Walras, general equilibrium, you're bound to turn up a Wiki article. It's probably not worth your time though. The bottom line is no true "Free Market" can exist for long other than on perhaps a small scale locally. So when someone...

But I'm NOT advocating for more government control, nor less. I have said more than once that I believe we shouldn't think in terms of how big or small our government is but how efficient and useful it is. I have no idea what you mean when you say "letting the IRS target people". Jem...

But on the other hand could we say everything we do is natural for us to do? Maybe it is in or nature to screw all the other species up. Though a lot of them went extinct on their own without our help. Maybe to a Penguin we are Gods and they dedicate their poop to us.

Are you meaning, in your thread title, by "free market, economic principles" to assume the actual existence of conditions which satisfy Walras' general equilibrium model requirements?* (In the Walrasian model, markets left alone, are expected to respond according to supply and demand and will...

What is the problem here? Do we have to decide among our choices of whether Trump is not vile enough to have earned the official stamp of the Republican party, or whether his current "be nice lies" are just a continuation of the salesman's spiel, where one says whatever is expedient to close...

That may be true. It does seem to be true that one's physiology is largely determined by DNA alone. If you want to define ones sex as determined by one's physiology you'll be able to get by as long as you don't try to apply such a simple definition to real people. If sex = physiology, then...

But think about this if you would please. Are you a man because your brain tells you you're a man, or because you have a dick? Are you a women because your brain tells you you're are a woman, or because you have a vagina? This is a serious, not a frivolous, question. Frankly, the evidence is...

That's a good thing, i.e., the awareness, and a step in the right direction, in my opinion.

With the current election election season in full tilt that "... dirty little secret " has apparently leaked out. That may be the best thing to happen in this election cycle. I thought Achilles had a good point. The Internet seems to be creating a new election paradigm, but not fast enough for...

I almost wanted to nominate " ...the goal of our education system should be to make everybody smart enough to watch tv" for this years best wisecrack. But then you dampened my enthusiasm by adding: "...we are losing too many good minds to the internet." You should have stopped while ahead.

opinions are worth more when they are rooted in knowledge.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-20/soros-says-china-s-debt-fueled-economy-resembles-u-s-in-2007-08

I'm pleased to note that the two Trillion plus in the Social Security Trust Fund should be safe from the threat of Wall Street for at least another four years.