Do you know Godwin’s law? That any internet discourse eventually devolves into something involving Hitler?

There is a new law. I’m coining it, as Doolittle’s law: The minute someone mentions Sweden in an economic argument, you know that they’re analysis [...]

So, this silly person sends me a religious diatribe quoting scripture and all manner of other deists as if it’s some scientific and scholarly work that will convince me that it’s the will of god that I do this or [...]

I argue that anarchic propertarianism is a brilliant and fruitful research program. But it is, as currently envisioned, another luddite fantasy rather than an institutional solution to modernity that can compete with democratic secular humanism and irrational financial probabilism. Until [...]

Don’t get me wrong. I’m all in favor of NPR. I’m a listener, albiet not a frequent one. On the other hand, using taxpayer money for purposes that are political in nature, content, or value judgements which other taxpayers find [...]

An Ideology: Any reasonably coherent set of social, cultural, moral and political ideas that can be used to obtain and hold political power on the behalf of a part of a population that perceives it has similar interests.

Copied here from http://judithcurry.com/2011/03/06/climate-story-telling-angst.

On Climate ETC: Judith Curry writes:

If climate scientists were to use their past accomplishments to bolster their current claims, there would be less controversy, as it’s more difficult to undermine the credibility of established achievements. [...]

And one more thing that I just see too much of – arguments over definitions.

I. A definition is a contract between two or more people on the properties, causal relations and utility of those relations.
I.I A term [...]

My rights are protected by my willingess to kill in order to defend them. Legal documents either require that many people are willing to kill to defend them, or that many people are willing to kill to enforce them, or [...]

Humans unconsciously rely upon these social constructs in order to establish priorities in political decision making:

The Family The Cult The Tribe The Fraternity

In the west, we rely upon the fraternity. The remnants of our military social order.

Democracy [...]

RE: Harmful illusions bedevil ideas about free markets and imprisonment: professor
By Sarah Galer

In which yet another left wing professor who hasn’t read Hayek, criticizes him (and advocates like myself) while relying upon ‘silly psychology’ to do so. [...]