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Winning caption #1 is very lame. I do not approve of Mr. Krugman’s sense of humor.

I think the important question is what kind of ice cream will go in my light cone.

A better divorce calculator already exists based on CDC outcomes, with a richer collection of demographic inputs.

I am an atheist with no desire for kids, so my probability of divorce after 20 years is 75%!

Add one kid on there to try and make it work and it’s … a 67% chance of divorce. Ooook.

BUT, if I bump my religiousness up to pope and add on 5 kids, my chance of divorce over 20 years drops to 5%.

So who says there’s no hope?

I’m glad I never had a professor such as Mr. DeLong when I was in graduate school else I never would have finished my degree in economics. I would have left in disgust at the lack of intellectual rigor.

Sneering. Name calling. But no actual attempt to refute anything that was quoted. We are just supposed to trust his expertise, I guess.

If this is what passes for economics education at one of the nation’s better university’s, I’m glad I attended a lowly big state university

I’m no fan of BD by any stretch, but perhaps he and other critics of Mises and company have the same tone and style for the same reason it’s “cool for elitists” to bash gold bugs: Maybe there’s a good reason. And the shrill nature of these people (one of the reasons I dislike BD, by the way) whenever anyone has the misfortune of falling under their gaze certainly doesn’t win them any friends. They’re, again, shrill. Accusatory. Denigrating of others intellectually and essentially morally. They’re profoundly arrogant, always able to identify the problem with certainty but never in a position to try to do anything about it (because the world is keeping them down), and they always saw it coming after the fact. Now, none of this is unique to their bunch, but they seem to have it in broader and deeper quantities, and they serve it all up with unveiled self-righteous anger.

Sometimes “manner” does count.

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