At 6?3?’ feet tall, Dowell was an enthusiastic college basketball athlete at the University of Rochester

how in the world can the editors in charge of her writing be so incompetent?

Is Ms Mcardle actually Jonah Goldberg in drag? Have they ever been seen separately at the same time?

It past time to do a “Flowers for Megan” send-up a la tboggs did for Jonah.

Personally, if I gotta get et, I’d prefer Mignola’s Ogdru Jahad to do the munching. No vinaigrette for that world-ender, just a quick grab with the tentacle and zoop! No more having to listen to Tony Snow blubbering how he loves the guys in the press room.

‘Course if Angelina Jolie wanted to take a few exploratory nibbles, well, I could make an exception.

Apart from helping the Repugs, starting under Saint Ronnie, loot the Treasury, of course. As a shiny object to distract the rubes whose pockets were being picked, it wurkid guuuud!

But hey! We wouldn’t want to educate her on the failing premise of ‘highest profit’ rather than just making profit which drives the current markets to not have broader selection.

I have a strong comparitive advantage in journalism, and no advantage at all in sempstressing…

Obviously spelling is not a journalism skill at the Atlantic. And her “advantage in journalism”…compared to what? A box of ferrets at the mall? I’m truly glad that she’s been given a home to demonstrate her meager abilities.

I’m surprised she can find her way to the office every morning.

A lot of us here from Megan’s Cthulhu’s old site are small “C” cthulhutarians, not members of the Cthulhutarian Party, and thus vote for whomever we think will promote freedom, access to (relatively) free markets of human flesh, not rely overmuch on government to provide the human flesh we should be providing for ourselves, etc. etc. So I don’t think you will see the landslide of votes for Ron Paul Elder Gods that you expect. Vinaigrette is good, though.

Rex Clem

Text lifted nearly verbatim from the comments section of Cthulhu’s Megan’s blog, with no apologies to Rex, Cthulhu’s Megan’s in-house knight errant.

And where are the knights errant indeed? Sixty or so coments and no sign of our boys.

Yes. And no, sadly.

There’s a difference between the “Oh, what an interesting idea! Wouldn’t that be cool!” sort of thing that econ professors can talk about, and the “Well, of course it’d never work” sort of thing that econ professors would actually apply.

The problem with the Laffer curve is that theoretically it works just fine. It’s possible that we’re at some level of tax rates where lowering tax rates would lead to some massive outpowering of effort and actually increase tax revenues.

Sadly, as a practical matter than level of taxation has never been shown to exist in reality. Entire societies (like, say, North Korea) and subsets of society (like, say, the enslaved part of the United States) have something close to 100% tax rates, and seem to work quite, um, hard. We can quibble over whether it’s truly a “100%” tax rate, and doubtless they could work harder and all that, but the point is that no one has ever found a correlation, let alone a causal relation, between tax rates and economic activity.

But then, it’s hard to explain to a libertarian, generally (but not exclusively) defined as somebody who never really had to worry about feeding rugrats and paying off a mortgage, that slacking off b/c tax rates are so dang high isn’t really an option.

Clem said,

Your efforts have been noted.

Thanks, Nyarlathotep. Good to know that I’m still on the Big Guy’s menu.

um… that’s gently tossed with a light vinaigrette, just in case you were wondering.

Back when I was pursuing my MA in Econ (three or four years ago), most of my professors did not agree with this assesment of the Laffer Curve. True, they’re teaching in a third-rate department at a second-rate school, but the fact is that they do have at least minimal economic training, as evidenced by their PhDs (some of them even graduated from reasonably prestigious departments).

Personally, I think the Laffer Curve is basically useless.

Wow, you must have spent two, maybe three minutes on Google to find that out! Megan would be so in awe of your crazy research skilz.

(Seriously, Has Megan written a single posts that couldn’t be rendered completely moot by a half-way decent search engine, half an hour, and half a brain.)

Any man who tells you different either has his hand in your pocket, or a pistol to your neck.

Are the participants in your scenario required to wear gimp suits?