tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post6765803188941833483..comments2024-02-21T12:11:32.886-05:00Comments on Bats Left/Throws Right: Anyway, Aren't Subtitles French?James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-17595765674743141292012-02-14T23:29:03.983-05:002012-02-14T23:29:03.983-05:00...the distinction between work and theft, and exc...<i>...the distinction between work and theft, and excuse the latter when it's on a large enough scale.</i><br /><br />Derived, of course, from:<br /><br />"Steal a little and they throw you in jail; steal a lot and they make you a king."<br /><br />Same as it ever was.freq flagnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-31982777164717749602012-02-13T20:07:33.430-05:002012-02-13T20:07:33.430-05:00I read the title as "Aren't Subtleties Fr...I read the title as "Aren't <i>Subtleties</i> French?" which amounts to the same thing, I suppose.DocAmazingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-22133145609064074252012-02-13T13:26:39.198-05:002012-02-13T13:26:39.198-05:00From the "Upside of Down" by Thomas Home...From the "Upside of Down" by Thomas Homer Dixon, p. 218:<br />"Buffeted and often terrified by our modern world's relentless flux, many of us desperately want to believe that at least the tenets of capitalism -- the right to private property, the benefits of competition, and the imperative of growth -- are eternally true. A cadre of experts -- central bankers and economists inprairie curmudgeonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1178724058646837842012-02-13T12:07:02.093-05:002012-02-13T12:07:02.093-05:00Indeed. Speaking of missing analyses, perhaps Broo...Indeed. Speaking of missing analyses, perhaps Brooks or Douthat will one day explain why globalization doesn't seem to have harmed the blue collar demographic of the Cayman Islands, a country with roughly the population of Tinley Park, Illinois (which works out to about 1 hedge fund for every 5 Islanders and banking assets of about $35 million per capita), aside from it being a great vacationR. Porrofattonoreply@blogger.com