I tell you, with complex numbers you can do anything.

I never ponder counterfactuals.

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day!

What does the Right have to show for eight years of a Republican presidency? I supported George W. Bush in 2000 because I thought he had a conservative bone in his body somewhere. I supported him in 2004 because I thought him the lesser of two evils. At this point, I wouldn't let the fool park his car in my driveway. Bruce Bartlett was right, every damn word.

He [Mencken] was an autodidact, with all the misplaced confidence and all the astonishing gaps that characterize that breed. Not many of us would venture to write a book about democracy without ever having read de Tocqueville, nor embark on a translation of Nietzsche with only a sketchy knowledge of German.

The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias