In this respect, their model is more the War Socialism of Hindenburg and Ludendorff during WWI than the classical Marxist prescription.

Agree that they’re likely to push for price controls; disagree that they’re aiming for formal state control of industries…If the government owns, say, the oil companies, then the government gets blamed for prices, spills, etc. Much better from their point of view to leave the companies theoretically independent while completely hog-tying them.

The Obamaites are not classical socialists, but rather economic fascists.

$4.29 here in SoCal. Ouch.

So putting this one alongside the “arsenic-based life forms” one begins to see why experienced researchers default to extreme skepticism about extraordinary results? Or why we require extraordinary results to be supported by extraordinary data?

And these two come from nuclear physics and molecular biology. Place credence in results from climatology models? You’ve got to be kidding.

Baseball guys have all sorts of ridiculous generalizations about lefties (e.g., “all left-handed pitchers have good curveballs, but they’re flaky;” “left-handed hitters crush pitches down and in on them”). Tim McCarver is full of … well, this sort of dugout lore.

I have to admit, however, that both of the generalizations above apply to me (not the flaky one, I hope), which only annoys me even more.

True. In effect, lefties want corporations to collect taxes for them, thereby shielding themselves from opprobrium.

“End of story” may not, however, be appropriate. I suspect that, like rent control, lefties will eventually push for price controls so that tax hikes will squeeze corporations. All steps toward state ownership of the means of production.

Yep, it means “of the left.” I used it instead of “sinister” because that would almost inevitably be misunderstood (although arguably “sinister” would be an appropriate characterization in all of its senses).

Left handers were discriminated against and yet have a higher creative capacity than right handers.

But their eyes roll when they laugh, and they love watermelon. Oops. Wrong stereotype.

Full disclosure: I’m left-handed myself.