Pending...

My response to Salty Girl is still forthcoming, sorry it's been a busy week and I want to wait until I have a proper amount of time free to focus on it.

For now, I direct you to Arnold Kling's post comparing the forthcoming stimulus bill to the battle of the Somme as examples of colossally stupid decision making. It is a wonderful post.

His point at the end that, all things considered, he's happier watching the government make stupid decisions that merely wreck untold economic havoc rather than watching them make stupid decisions that cost thousands of young lives is well taken.

It could always be worse...

(I'm going to leave off my innate suspicion that if you wait long enough, it usually is.)