Wednesday, September 10, 2008

LHC rap

Not particularly ahead of the curve on this, but for those who haven't seen it yet:

7 comments:

Arvind said...

On another note, I attach the following article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/world/asia/30caste.html

Anonymous said...

you stupid fellow,
how many times i have to tell you? wear a beret and a horizontal striped shirt. speak with a french accent. condemn capitalism. is cool this way. your way is no' cool.

Arvind said...

Dear Wise Anonymous

I agree it is cool to have uncorroborated opinions and let both systematic and anecdotal evidence be damned. I also agree that the best thing to do is to try to be cool.

Arvind

Anonymous said...

machchan,
ne thani level la spin pandriyay! so with a single word (anecdotal) you will have us reading some talking-head bullshit in the new york times and likely draw some conclusions..? if someone said that africa is benefiting from demand in china will that vindicate what is happening there (china)?

anyway, ponmagan orey tank aaradu. murugan sami paatha adey situation. hope all is well. everything is a blessing or one in disguise.

Anonymous said...

dai sami,
i wanted to thank all of you at ponmagan. na wailing wall pogyituh prayer offer panna poreyn. aren't free markets just the most wonderful thing?

Arvind said...

Not at all, free markets are not the most wonderful thing, in fact they are highly flawed. But they happen to be better much better than anything else you have offerred or that anyone else has suggested/tried.

Here's more than anecdotal evidence for the effect of free markets on discrimination. See the article on discrimination. http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/

Now unless you raise the quality of your arguments to include the inconvenient thing called empirical evidence, I am afraid I have to go with Beckers view.

Arvind

Anonymous said...

so they *are* the most wonderful thing, right? anyways, this is my last on this topic with you.

you cannot be taken seriously. between your stupidity about these things, a result if not of your intelligence level surely of your incredibly short attention span, and your nihilistic world view,
logical discussion is impossible.

re. the nihilistic world view - as bad as it is, thank god for it. wotha, if it were not for that you could move to alabama, grow a mullet, chew tobacco and marry a cousin or two. periyaa late aaley you can still go.