Obviously you've read
Vision of the Annointed If you have not yet got to
Black Rednecks and White Liberals I recommend it to you.
Sowell, Krauthammer,PJ O'Rourke, and Tom Wolfe are on the top of my Fantasy Dinnerguest list <g>
>Very much so. All sides of just about every social issue are intent on manipulating statistical data to suit their purpose.
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>I also agree with his views on global warming, supporting the troops, affirmative action, racial profiling, racism, civil rights, rule of law, self-government, gosh I could go on and on...
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>Sowell points out, social policy is made on the basis of sweeping assumptions, arbitrarily-selected statistical data, and ideological dogma, where evidence is neither asked for nor offered
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>>Britain's experience with gun crime after Dunblane is pretty well-known among folks who follow that kind of stuff, but it is conveniently off the radar of those who don't want idealism corrupted by facts and is unlikely to intefere with the "Vision of the Annointed" <s> ( I have to assume you're a Thomas Sowell fan )
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
