Comments on: Helprin on EconTalk

By: jholbo

jholbo — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:58:06 +0000

Thank you kindly, Salient. Only I must warn you that I’m going on vacation in a few days and S&O is going on a couple weeks hiatus, until the first week of August.

By: Salient

Salient — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:27:40 +0000

I even rhymed ‘prokaryotesque’ with ‘so very grotesque’. What more could you ask for? I could ask you to turn lepidoptera into a complement that rhymes nicely. 'Cept that's done been done already. So I really have nothing more to ask for, or wish for, or hope for: just patiently await the next installment, and watch the clock.

By: Mike Munger

Mike Munger — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:32:23 +0000

If I may be so bold as to return to the subject of JHolbo’s actual post….

Wow! Were you ever right, John. Mr. Helperin appeared on EconTalk, but was not in any way affected by it. Russ appears to worship Helperin as a G*d figure, because of Helperin’s writing talents. And that is fair enough.

But it is safe to say that we libertarians do, indeed, have some questions about the merits of Mr. Helperin’s positions. I wish Russ had asked some of those questions.

There is a famous libertarian,
AJ Galambos , who had views even more extreme than Helperin’s. It is an interesting subject, though I happen to take the opposite view.

By: jholbo

jholbo — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:44:49 +0000

“I always forget my login.”

But surely you don’t need your login to view other people’s stuff on Flickr. (Do you? I’m always logged in so I guess there might be some inconvenience I’m not seeing.) Ah well, this was sort of a stop-gap publication method until I make book and sell, like, 20 copies to friends and relatives. It is really supposed to be a paper product.

By: John Quiggin

John Quiggin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:20:45 +0000

Me too on Flickr. I always forget my login.

By: zamfir

zamfir — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:48:29 +0000

im sorry john, i too like s&o but cant handle the flickr

By: Tim Wilkinson

Tim Wilkinson — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:42:48 +0000

If my pistol hasn’t rusted away in the meantime.

Browning, is it?

By: John Holbo

John Holbo — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:47:19 +0000

ben, ben, ben, I know everyone says that women find men who can’t use RSS readers to be ‘sexy’ (as the kids say). But I think you need just to look in the mirror and say: I know a ton about grammar and goldarn it, people like me!

By: Barry

Barry — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:59:08 +0000

“Why do I keep having to remind you to read it? Don’t you care about culture?”

When somebody speaks of culture, I draw my pistol.

A few years later, that is.

If my pistol hasn’t rusted away in the meantime.

By: Dave Maier

Dave Maier — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:09:37 +0000

Speaking of entmoots, you seem to be taking your time with the promised follow-up to that other post about anti-realism. That’s okay though—mustn’t be hasty! (Just don’t forget.)

By: ben

ben — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:25:54 +0000

I’m not sophisticated enough to use an RSS reader.

By: John Holbo

John Holbo — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:09:45 +0000

But … but it has an RSS feed and everything. Oh, alright. As long as you promise to buy the book when it comes out.

By: Henry

Henry — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:09:32 +0000

Since every bloody version of the CC license these days includes the ‘With Attribution’ tag, Helprin really, really doesn’t have a clue what he is talking about.

By: ben

ben — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:03:05 +0000

Why do I keep having to remind you to read it? Don’t you care about culture?

I sense an opportunity for snidery…

A flickr set isn’t really a very congenial way to read a webcomic, as it turns out.