Random year end quotes. “In theory there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice there is.”  Yogi Berra “Every snowflake pleads innocent but it is still a an avalanche.” Stanislaw Lec (paraphrased) “Beware of false knowledge: it is more dangerous

Greg Gutfeld comments on the Sandra Fluke mini controversy in his new book, The Joy of Hate: “Forget that health insurance should really only pertain to serious stuff. This sad and stupid debate should be pretty simple: it’s between those who embrace

  Adding complexity and uncertainty to a system that is already too complex almost ensures another failure.  Legislators think incompetence in the private sector can be cured with incompetence in the public sector.  In the private sector mistakes are recognized

When poverty becomes a government concern it spawns bureaucracies with six figure staffers who claim the moral high ground not by reducing poverty, but by perpetuating and institutionalizing it. Without the established moral virtues of freedom, tolerance, individual rights, and

Nassim Taleb conceptualizes systems by their fragility in Antifragile:Things that Gain from Disorder.  Fragile systems are weakened by stress, robust systems withstand and survive stress, and anti-fragile systems are actually strengthened by stress. (Think weightlifting and body building.) In his