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[Goaticus]

A Republican and a Libertarian go on a walk together. The Republican says, "If you Libertarians were in control, why, people would be fornicating in the public parks." The Libertarian looks at him with a devilish grin and says, "What public parks?" - Mikey Luther

[Goaticus]

   
"This is not prose. This is the systematic abuse of prose. Anyone hoping to learn writing should stay a thousand miles away from people who write in such a manner. That is, they should stay a thousand miles away from most university professors."

Michael Ellsburg writing about this monstrosity.


"An element of a shared symbolic system which serves as a criterion or standard for selection among the alternatives of orientation which are intrinsically open in a situation may be called a value. . . But from this motivational orientation aspect of the totality of action it is, in view of the role of symbolic systems, necessary to distinguish a 'value orientation' aspect. This aspect concerns, not the meaning of the expected state of affairs to the actor in terms of his gratification-deprivation balance but the content of the selective standards themselves. The concept of value-orientations in this sense is thus the logical device for formulating one central aspect of the articulation of cultural traditions in the action system.

   " It follows from the derivation of normative orientation and the role of values in action as stated above, that all values involve what may be called a social reference. . . It is inherent in an action system that action is, to use one phrase, "normatively oriented." This follows, as was shown, from the concept of expectations and its place in action theory, especially in the 'active' phase in which the actor pursues goals. Expectations then, in combination with the 'double contingency' of the process of interaction as it has been called, create a crucially imperative problem of order. Two aspects of this problem of order may in turn be distinguished, order in the symbolic systems which make communication possible, and order in the mutuality of the motivational orientation to the normative aspect of expectations, the 'Hobbesian' problem of order"


Seriously, why do some people think that writing like the post modernism generator makes them sound intelligent.

[Lord T Hawkeye]

How I wish Saur was here to read this.  He could learn so much...

[Goaticus]

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I love this.

[Goaticus]

He says a lot of stupid shit, but I have to give him credit for integrity.

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[Goaticus]

[VectorM]

He says a lot of stupid shit, but I have to give him credit for integrity.

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I wonder if Judge Napolitano dealt with the same shit. 

[Goaticus]

I wonder if Judge Napolitano dealt with the same shit. 

I'd be really surprised if he didn't deal with a lot worse.

[Goaticus]

[AnCap Dave]

[Lord T Hawkeye]

"        This thief points a gun to the head of the miner and says "pay me a cut of your profits so I won't shoot you in the head"
        Then he points a gun at the smelter and says "pay me a cut of your profits so I wont' shoot you in the head"
        Then he points a gun at the tractor maker and says "pay me a cut of your profits so I won't shoot you in the head"
        Then he points a gun at the milk farmer and says "pay me a licensing fee so I won't shoot you in the head."
        Then when your grandma goes to buy some milk, he points a gun at her head and says "Pay me some of hte money in your purse so I won't shoot you in the head so I can give some of it back to you later so you can buy milk"
        And he keeps some of the money he steals at every step along the way.  With the end result that milk is more expensive and grandma overall has less money to buy milk.
        If this is "the public good", then fuck the public good"

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Two more parts which are even better

[AnCap Dave]

[Travis Retriever]

"I NEVER claimed to be unbiased." -- Shane

Epic win.

[Ibrahim90]

http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/11/23/the-truth-is-out-there%E2%80%A6isn%E2%80%99t-it-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/


I love this particular podcast's insights into human biases.

[Lord T Hawkeye]

Give this man a free sugary food of his choice!