From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time
-- F.A. Hayak
Are you inclined toward engineering? Can you ‘eyeball’ a picture or frame and see the geometric errors? Or, are you just monumentally critical of other people’s work and are obliged to criticize?
No matter, try this out. I scored 2.76 the first time and 2.38 the second. If I used a business card as a straight edge I was able to lower my score to 1.56 (but that’s cheating).
Michael Goodwin, writing in the New York Post, has a withering take down of President Obama. Just a sample ought to suffice:
At the center is a young and talented celebrity whose worldview, we now know, is an incoherent jumble of poses and big-government instincts. His self-aggrandizing ambition exceeds his ability by so much that he is making a mess of everything he touches.
He never advances a practical idea. Every proposal overreaches and comes wrapped in ideology and a claim of moral superiority. He doesn't listen to anybody who doesn't agree with him.
So true.
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