It's an artifact of his Hansonism. As I myself have reluctantly been driven to become more and more Hansonian over the past year, I find people have started to say things like this to me as well.

For example, I found myself recently fretting with a friend over whether we were stating something just because it made us feel loyal, and asking her for her best guess as to its actual truth. She rolled her eyes at me and said, “You're such an enigma.”

She happens to be an acquaintance of the well-known liberal commentator who last summer called me an “anti-feminist libertarian dinosaur” when I gingerly asked her if she really felt Obama's equal pay act gig would help her more than harm her, as a highly compensated female.

Perhaps being Hansonian somehow translates to giving out-of-phase signals, which most find extremely confusing. I'll give you an 85% chance of that being true.

Btw, WW: the commenting system sometimes eats comments; they just don't appear. It happened to me earlier this week. I also now get a message from Disqus on occasion telling me “your comment is on hold for moderation” – and then it appears 2 or 3 minutes later. So I had simply assumed you are now actively moderating all comments.

Bottom line set up the system so workers get paid a decent wage and income does not accumulate at the top and we will all be better off. The idea that policy does not effect wages, income distribution and economic productivity seems so at odds with historical facts.

Set up a system where bad money chases out good and this will predictably happen again.

Umm test

Think about the relationship between military spending in the '80's and the technology revolution of the '90's. A strong case can be made for energy being the next area in which American innovation can lead and the American economy can reap the benefits of proprietary product development.