Mike's Blog Roundup
By Mike Finnigan Saturday Nov 28, 2009 5:00amOrnery Bastard: Hundreds, if not thousands of lobbyists are likely to be ejected from federal advisory panels as part of a little-noticed initiative by the Obama administration to curb K Street's influence in Washington.
The Satirical Political Report: White House party crashers were Dick and Liz Cheney in disguise
Brad DeLong: Dubai: Why, yes, our collateral in underwater. Why do you ask?
American Street: Despair Not!
Bernard Avishai: The real meaning of 'The Freeze'
Dennis Perrin: Children of the Grave
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I'm not sure his religious bent doesn't predispose him to a humanist eschatology. The Roman Republic was on the right side of history too. But then there was Caligula, Attila the Hun, the Dark Ages, the Crusades, black death and witch burnings. And humanity hadn't populated itself to the point of eating the planet bare and warming it like an oven back then.
I'm getting swayed by the transhumanist arguments. Homo sapiens are inherently defective primates for either species or planetary survival. We need a fundamentally different Homo sapiens v. 2.0 and we need the transition now if this planet has any chance.
I'm not sure it's accurate to blame all of humanity. The Crusades, Witch Burnings, WMDs, ... these were all inherently the CONSERVATIVE strain of bright ideas. These are the people who have yet to evolve far past the neanderthals.
Jobs for Afghans?
But, then again. There will be a price.
Hooray for lobbyists out of work, and driftglass' post is a home run.
And Ornery Bastard's story should get a lot more noise, frankly. I'd love to see the end of (most) lobbyists in Washington.
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