Shepherds and Sheep. Thomas Sowell deflates Cass Sunstein’s argument that our “betters” should tell us how to live our lives: “Implicit in the wide range of efforts on the left to get government to take over more of our decisions for us is the assumption that there is some superior class of people who are either wiser or nobler than the rest of us.” There ain’t, but that don’t stop ’em from thinking there is. “The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.” – Albert Camus
Author: Bonfire of the Absurdities
After 35 year career writing software for IBM mainframes, am now self-employed contractor thinking of joining a union and striking for higher wages. Cured morbid fear of heights when I learned to look at them as lengths standing on end. Uncompromising in refusal to accept browser cookies. Amateur investor who has accumulated a small fortune in the market after starting out years ago with a large one. For recreation, I run, hike, kayak and play tennis but will not consider synchronized swimming under any circumstances.
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