tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11415684.post1450424726392859027..comments2024-01-10T06:40:26.416-05:00Comments on Chesterton and Friends: Words mostly fail meUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11415684.post-29605786195127749492007-07-18T09:16:00.000-04:002007-07-18T09:16:00.000-04:00Why do I smell the sickly-sweet odour of rationali...Why do I smell the sickly-sweet odour of rationalization in that book. <BR/><BR/>It's an unjustified suspicion, but I beleive the man's trying to justify something to himself, rather than anything else.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11415684.post-75944789428394234752007-07-09T17:05:00.000-04:002007-07-09T17:05:00.000-04:00If you can ignore basic game theory, then this pro...If you can ignore basic game theory, then this proposal based on game theory makes sense.<BR/><BR/>(qed)Vernunfthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16652751092085432868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11415684.post-74076043879318731652007-07-09T15:11:00.000-04:002007-07-09T15:11:00.000-04:00I, as a person with health insurance, should eat a...I, as a person with health insurance, should eat as much risky food as possible thereby absorbing and treating the sickness that would debilitate my non-insurance having neighbor.<BR/><BR/>This must be sarcasm, no one could be this dim.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11415684.post-20324653441861322362007-07-09T12:55:00.000-04:002007-07-09T12:55:00.000-04:00Really? Well, I'll fix that then.The people doing...Really? Well, I'll fix that then.<BR/><BR/>The people doing reviews at Amazon seemed to think it was the same guy, or at least one of them, but maybe I was just misreading them. I was not exactly in the most coherent and calm state of mind while doing this, after all.Nick Milnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15677481833245634421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11415684.post-35282229218640118712007-07-09T12:52:00.000-04:002007-07-09T12:52:00.000-04:00Landsburg is the author of The Armchair Economist....Landsburg is the author of <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Armchair-Economist-Economics-Everyday-Life/dp/0029177766/ref=sr_1_2/105-8380129-0970814?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183999749&sr=1-2" REL="nofollow">The Armchair Economist</A>. <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Freakonomics-Revised-Expanded-Economist-Everything/dp/0061234001/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-8380129-0970814?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183999587&sr=1-1" REL="nofollow">Freakonomics</A> was the work of a couple of other Ste[v|ph]ens, but was written along the same lines.reganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11907282859355262208noreply@blogger.com