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Saturday, October 20, 2012

2012 Presidential Debate #1

The debate spawned a torrent in the Twitterverse.  Of the best,(CNN's 25 Funniest Tweets) these were the ones I thought memorable:

Phil Plait ‏-- After reading all the variations of the debate drinking games, I have decided to simply remove my liver and set it on fire.

Tara Ariano ‏-- Frankly, neither candidate is working hard enough to land the immigrant feminist small business owner non-voting socialist vote.
Fired Big Bird -- If you don't vote Obama, Mitt Romney is going to be eating me by the end of November.
Dave Weigel -- This is like watching a tax law professor debate an investment advice infomercial host

A members of a listserv to which I was added through no fault of my own passed along two famous quotes about economics, both of which were unknown to me:

Thomas Sowell:
"The first lesson of economics is scarcity. There is never enough of anything to satisfy everyone who wants it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. "
From Frans de Waals' book, "Chimpanzee Politics" :
"...Harold Laswell's famous definition of politics as a societal process determining 'who gets what, when, and how'..."

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