{"id":6114,"date":"2014-01-14T10:06:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T15:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6114"},"modified":"2014-01-14T10:06:43","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T15:06:43","slug":"things-heard-e285v1n2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6114","title":{"rendered":"Things Heard: e285v1n2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>So\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2014\/01\/i-am-26-conservative-74-liberal.html\" target=\"_blank\">there&#8217;s this survey<\/a>\u00a0&#8230;. I have a beef with one of their questions. There is a question asking if you value higher self-control or creativity. This is a confusing question to answer, I think creativity is incredibly important. I also think that self-discipline\/self-control are a pre-requisite for creativity. If you think calculus is valuable can you weigh the relative importance of the ability to do algebra or calculus higher? I answered algebra, because calculus. Is this how we distinguish liberals from conservatives, liberals are those who don&#8217;t think creativity requires discipline? What? Do they think creativity just sort of &#8220;happens&#8221; magically?<\/li>\n<li>A died in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.volokh.com\/2014\/01\/14\/wolf-amendment\/\" target=\"_blank\">wool classical liberal<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Mammals\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twentytwowords.com\/2014\/01\/13\/entire-herd-of-deer-comes-running-when-called-for-breakfast\/\" target=\"_blank\">can learn<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>So,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gregmankiw.blogspot.com\/2014\/01\/the-minimum-wage-as-antipoverty-tool.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>cui bono<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and the minimum wage. When you factor in how much a higher min wage boosts automation, you can pretty much set aside notion that the beneficiaries are the &#8220;the poor&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.volokh.com\/2014\/01\/13\/gun-control-mass-shootings-political-ignorance\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ignorance, democracy, and gun control<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Safety\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/agenda\/368336\/odds-and-ends-plus-new-health-safety-net-reihan-salam\" target=\"_blank\">nets<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Haute\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.donaldscrankshaw.com\/2014\/01\/boots.html\" target=\"_blank\">couture<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/368282\/obamacares-big-problems-small-businesses-yuval-levin\" target=\"_blank\">Obamacare<\/a>. And the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2014\/01\/will-we-be-bailing-out-the-insurance-companies.html\" target=\"_blank\">coming bailout<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Climate change, I&#8217;m missing the part\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2014\/01\/140113114756.htm\" target=\"_blank\">where this is bad<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>More on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2014\/01\/12\/global-warming-is-real-but-not-a-big-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\">climate here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A quality\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/betweenletters.quora.com\/Idiots-calling-each-other-idiots\" target=\"_blank\">American education<\/a>, eh?<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Republicans&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themoderatevoice.com\/190744\/republicans-circle-wagons-around-chris-christie\/\" target=\"_blank\">do that<\/a>? Not all of us.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feministphilosophers.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/12\/your-philosophy-paper-got-women\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bigotry exemplified<\/a>. Don&#8217;t judge on the quality of the work (content of character) but the gender count of your references, i.e., the color of your skin.<\/li>\n<li>Income\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cafehayek.com\/2014\/01\/two-notes-on-income-inequality.html\" target=\"_blank\">inequality<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>That\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/moot.typepad.com\/what_if\/2014\/01\/voter-fraud.html\" target=\"_blank\">voter fraud<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Go\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefirearmblog.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/12\/interview-vera-koo-world-champion-shooter\/\" target=\"_blank\">girl<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links? So\u00a0there&#8217;s this survey\u00a0&#8230;. I have a beef with one of their questions. There is a question asking if you value higher self-control or creativity. This is a confusing question to answer, I think creativity is incredibly important. I also think that self-discipline\/self-control are a pre-requisite for creativity. If you think calculus is valuable can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-marko"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}