Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Cogitational Super Powers, Activate!

Thomas Sowell asks if talk is cheap:



Well, I'm stumped.

10 comments:

  1. Card checks are the rhetorical path to Nazism.

    I like how the essays just peters out. At first, I thought there must be a Page 3, but then I realized that was it. He just stopped with the football analogy.

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  2. If he'd titled it Random Thoughts again it'd be forgivable.

    Still putting this together:

    1. Obama is Hitler
    2. We must be vigilant against crazy talk!

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  3. 1. Talk is cheap
    2. Obama is Hitler
    3. If you could go back in time would you shoot Hitler?
    4. This is an excellent chair I have

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  4. 5. That cloud looks like Pluto the dog.

    There must be a page 3. Surely. maybe the editors just went to sleep, I know I did.

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  5. That essay is surprisingly amateurish for a man who gets paid to write and is widely published. It could only have been worse if he'd gone with the old "The dictionary defines "cheap" as..."

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  6. He started with a "They say" so that's something. I'm not going back to check for that one Santayana quote.

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  7. Ohhhhhh. Hitler. Now I get it.

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  8. This sort of late response will allow HITLER TO BE ELECTED!

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