Economists And Psychopaths
“The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll and we can be grateful for that.” WTF.
Tag: Teabaggers
The Paranoid Stylings Of Glenn Beck
Solange Uwimana over at Media Matters draws our attention to an interesting conjunction between Glenn Beck and the late Richard Hofstadter : The year Glenn Beck was born, Harper’s published an essay by Richard Hofstadter in which the historian explained a “style of mind” common among “extreme right-wingers” of his time. He referred to it as “the paranoid style” for …
The Dunning–Kruger Effect
From Wikipedia: The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to realize their mistakes.[1] The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This …
RAND PAUL: UNPLUGGED & UNHINGED
Why do I get the feeling that this guy is juggling hatchets inside his head?
Nothingness
The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – Nothingness www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election March to Keep Fear Alive If a poor family falls dead in the woods and no one cares, did it really happen? Stephen waxes philosophical over the election of Rand Paul, class warfare, trickled down upon economics, emptying one’s mind …
Swiftboating Latino Voters (Update)
Aping the Teabaggers, the Rethugs wrap themselves in the flag and promote their party as the defenders of the Constitution. And just when you thought they couldn’t sink any lower, they roll out the above ad to Hispanic voters encouraging them to ignore their most primary constitutional responsibility– the right and duty to vote. (For the Spanish version, see here.) …
