Bonus Quotation of the Day

Is from Arnold Kling blogging at askblog on a recent conversation between Tyler Cowen and Steven Pinker:

"The people who proclaim their allegiance to socialism do not have to live in Venezuela."

Quotation of the Day

Is from Michael Rizzo (AKA wintercow20) blogging at The Unbroken Window:

"It would also be nice if folks just staked their positions out instead of trying to cloak them up. My mental model is progressives are for anything that isn’t 'scary-tale versions of capitalism' based on what some ideologue 5th grade teacher told them about World War 2 ending the Depression, FDR saving America, labor market regulations designed to help the worst off, where our prosperity comes from, the role the robber barons played, etc. and the 'right' is for anything other than what progressives seem to be about. I do not think either is actually very much principled. If they were. then at least say, 'I am for liberty in every aspect and every regard even if it produces some outcomes which may seem reprehensible, and here is why …' or 'I am for the elites running things, or I am for industrial planning, even if it has produced historical global horror stories, and here is why …' But we can’t even get that. Just a lot of dressed-up gobbledegook."

Read the whole thing.

Kling on Krugman

He is scathing:

"Everything written by, for, or against Krugman over the past 15 years is a waste of time.  That includes this post as well as Adler’s.  It includes various attempts by Henderson, Cowen, and Sumner to engage with Krugman.  They try to treat him as if he had some sense of decency.  Instead, he is Joe McCarthy with a Nobel Prize."

Here.

And as pointed out by others, this is on a blog with the subtitle 'Taking the most charitable view of those who disagree'.

Ouch!

I guess this post is also a waste of time.