Back in June of 2010, SayUncle and I got into it a little bit over a study purporting to show that liberals are Teh Suck at basic economics while libertarians and conservatives are Teh Smart. I alleged that the questions were biased in a way that made liberals in particular more likely to do poorly; [...]
Archive for the ‘Economics’ Category
How Would Uncle Like His Crow
Posted in Bloggin, Economics, Politics on November 10, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Conservatism in a Wingnutshell
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Economics, General, News & Current Events, Politics, Things That Suck on July 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It hardly needs to be pointed out, but here’s yet more proof that the budget and debt debate is, for conservatives, nothing but political grandstanding to score points. The economic fate of the nation is nothing to them but a tool for the betterment of the Republican party. Here’s William Kristol – the “serious” conservative [...]
Please, Please Stop Hurting America With Your Ignorant Whining
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Economics, General, News & Current Events, Politics, Sports, Taxes on July 13, 2011 | 4 Comments »
OK, so Derek Jeter got his 3,000th hit the other day, with a sweet home run that just made it all the better. A fan caught the ball and donated it back to Jeter, though many people speculated it could have been auctioned for as much as a quarter-million dollars. In return, the Yankees gave [...]
Ben Stein: Former Hack, now Class-War Misogynist Hack
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Economics, Gender Issues, General, Legal Issues, News & Current Events, Politics, Things That Suck, Uncategorized on May 17, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Holy shit. The ludicrous Ben Stein goes completely off the rails with this loathsome commentary on the IMF rape case. Stein is a jackass of the first water, and given to weird conspiracy theories (global warming, evolution theory, and the welfare state are all secret movements designed to undermine freedom), but he likes to position [...]
QOTD – Corporate Lawyer Edition
Posted in Culture, Economics, General, Legal Issues on April 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Overheard from a financial law attorney, apparently testing the legal-ethics waters: Of all the reasons to go to jail, stealing money for other people is the worst! Well, at least he’s got standards.
Democrats Standing Up for Things They Believe In [. . . huh?]
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Economics, Gender Issues, General, Health, Media, News & Current Events, Politics, Privacy, Taxes, Things That Suck on March 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Must be something in the water up on Capitol Hill today. Two (count ‘em . . . two!) Democrats actually took a stand for something, and used the GOP’s own tactics to call out their hypocrisy and mean-spiritedness. It can’t last, of course. But, hell, even the Cubs win a game once in a while. [...]
OMG! Our Corporate Overlords Have Modems!
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Economics, General, How Capitalism Will Ruin You, Media, News & Current Events, Politics, Technology, Things That Suck on December 18, 2010 | 4 Comments »
So Dan Gillmor is apparently some sort of online media expert: the Director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication, no less. And apparently in the spirit of “when all you have is a directorship of a center for digital media entrepreneurship, [...]
Balance the Budget!
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Economics, General, How Capitalism Will Ruin You, Media, News & Current Events, Politics, Taxes on November 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The NY Times has an interactive budget tool up today, asking you to choose various budget options and displaying their effect on the overall budget deficit. See if you can eliminate the deficit! Mine is here. The tool is kind of crude: for one thing, it only offers savings options – meaning you can’t add [...]
It’s Called Civilization
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Economics, Politics on November 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
So a town in Arizona contracted out their garbage collection to a collection company. Some of the local teahadists had a minor shit fit over this affront to the Great God Ayn Rand and her Holy Manservent the Market. John Cole had a bit of fun at their expense, but then one of John’s co-bloggers [...]
Quote of the Day, 2010-11-02
Posted in Economics, Humor on November 2, 2010 | Comments Off
Paul Krugman: [B]asic arithmetic makes people very, very angry.
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