We all like to recycle our garbage. Penn & Teller, however, demonstrate how we are fooling ourselves into believing recycling helps the environment.
Penn & Teller Bullshit! – (2-05) – 205 – Recycling from Raymond Sison on Vimeo.
Recycling Stupidity
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John Stossel examines the perverted logic of recycling programs and the sustainability movement. This is a segment from his Fox News show special Green Tyranny.
Heather MacDonald On the Universities and the Students
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Heather MacDonald is an American political commentator, essayist, attorney and journalist. Wikipedia describes her as a “secular conservative” whatever that is. I guess that must be what I am as well. She is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor to New York’s City Journal, and someone worth paying a lot of attention to. Her latest book is “The War on Cops” which is worth your time. She hangs around precincts a lot and knows whereof she speaks.
Naturally and unfortunately, the Left rejects whatever she says. Bill McGurn wrote a piece called “The Silencing of Heather MacDonald” for The Wall Street Journal. You can find frequent essays of hers at City Journal.
Another letter re Lorde and Israel
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Pastor Nigel Woodley who leads the Flaxmere Christian Fellowship writes a letter concerning the withdrawal of Lorde from her proposed Tel Aviv concert.
Broadly, Adam shares the pastor’s sentiments especially re BDS, though is unlikely to share what he suspects are Mr Woodley’s evangelical beliefs.
Barbarians! Turning a Wine Bottle into a Tap
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in entrepreneurship Tags: wine
Why we live in Wellington; cheap housing, and safer too
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in environmental economics, urban economics
Life expectancy in Korea, Chile, Mexico and Brazil has skyrocketed
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in development economics, economic history, growth miracles, health economics Tags: life expectancies, The Great Escape
Watch “The Psychology of Trolling” on YouTube
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Does Economic Theory Entail or Support Free-Market Ideology?
29 Dec 2017 Leave a comment
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A few weeks ago, via Twitter, Beatrice Cherrier solicited responses to this query from Dina Pomeranz
It is a serious — and a disturbing – question, because it suggests that the free-market ideology which is a powerful – though not necessarily the most powerful — force in American right-wing politics, and probably more powerful in American politics than in the politics of any other country, is the result of how economics was taught in the 1970s and 1980s, and in the 1960s at UCLA, where I was an undergrad (AB 1970) and a graduate student (PhD 1977), and at Chicago.
In the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s, free-market economics had…
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Moral superiority is the payoff of righteous outrage. No surprise there.
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in Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: moral psychology, political correctness
Point nine on credit cards will happen
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in transport economics Tags: robots
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