The Country Thinker

This fea­ture is intended to pro­vide a lit­tle lev­ity at the end of the work week.

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From blog­ging col­league Sil­ver­fid­dle at West­ern Hero, regard­ing the dread­ful neg­a­tive impacts of “green energy” pro­duc­tion on the envi­ron­ment and the world’s poor:

All of this defor­esta­tion, destruc­tion and theft of poor people’s land is brought to you by your pro­gres­sive fed­eral gov­ern­ment teamed with like-​​minded global pro­gres­sives.  With progress like this, who needs enemies?

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In Schools for Mis­rule, Wal­ter Olson para­phrases Jean-​​Baptiste Colbert:

[T]he art of pub­lic finance lies in obtain­ing from the goose the most feath­ers with the least squawking.

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Also from Schools for Mis­rule, Olson quotes the “Yale Law School anthem,” in which stu­dents lamented the lack of prac­ti­cal legal edu­ca­tion in favor of pub­lic pol­icy philo­soph­i­cal brain­wash­ing. It is to the tune of “Won­der­ful World” (aka: “Don’t Know Much About His­tory,”) with this video to get you up to speed if you don’t know the tune:

Don’t know much about Property,

Don’t know much about Bankruptcy,

Don’t know much about Secured Transactions,

Don’t know how to file legal actions,

But I do know Philosophy,

And I know that with my Yale degree,

What a won­der­ful world this could be.

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Have a nice week­end if you so choose!