Yglesias Doesn’t Care about the Causes of Inequality Because He Doesn’t Care about Inequality

"so there’s really no reposting it..."

Yes, as I subsequently discovered. Oh well, glad you liked it. I'd tried to track down the clip on youtube (Sam's performance is much funnier than my transcription); alas, no such luck.

economist.com is updating its comments feature, so there's really no reposting it. Anyway, that's damn funny.

Boy, did I ever leave that comment on the wrong post. Go ahead and delete it; I'll repost it over where it belongs.

"It is then vivid that the decision not to have the next child will leave some unlucky soul dejected and unrealised. If having a kid benefits the kid, then not having a kid harms the kid-that-might-have-been."

But cf. Sam Kinison (to his parents, who have announced to him, "[Y]ou're old enough to be on your own":

You know, before I was your little son. Before I was your baby -- before I was your loan -- I was a free spirit in the next stage of life. I walked in the cosmos, not imprisoned by a body of flesh, but free, in a pure body of light. There were no questions, only answers. No weaknesses, only strengths. I was light, I was truth, I was a spiritual being, I was a God!!!

But you had to F*** and bring my ass down HERE!

I didn't ask to be born! I didn't call and say: 'Hey, please have me so I could work in a f***in' Winchell's someday!' Now you want me to pay my own way? F*** YOU! PICK UP THE F***IN' CHECK, MOM! PICK IT UP!

I read Kinison as pretty much disagreeing with the Economist's analysis.

Tell those suckers over there to accept comments! What good is vaguely hostile tendentious libertarian proselytizing if you don't allow good old-fashioned trolling flame-wars in response? Such a tease!