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To: JohnM who wrote (44886)5/17/2004 2:50:55 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (3) of 793800
 
And Austin in early May is one of the more spectacular places to be. Wonderful weather.

Ahh, so that's where you are! Back in that "rock ribbed Republican" state. I have to put up with one day after another of "high 82, low 72."

I coincidentally just read some great lines about your former profession by H L Mencken. He would have made a great blogger. I now have 116 blogs on RSS feed.

Mencken on Economists
By Don Boudreaux on Weblogs

Of all Americans ever to put quill to parchment, or fingers to a keyboard, the one who surely possessed the greatest talent to blog is, alas, a man who likely never set his eyes on a computer: H.L. Mencken.
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Here's Mencken on the economics profession:

Its dismalness is largely a delusion, due to the fact that its chief ornaments, at least in our own day, are university professors. The professor must be an obscurantist or he is nothing; he has a special and unmatchable talent for dullness; his central aim is not to expose the truth clearly, but to exhibit his profundity, his esotericity -- in brief, to stagger sophomores and other professors.

Later in the same essay ("The Dismal Science") Mencken laments "the mental timorousness and conformity which go inevitably with school-teaching."

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