Saturday, May 20, 2006
Random thoughts by Thomas Sowell
Writing columns must require tremendous time management skills.
Every day brings more material than is humanly possible to handle...
Every day brings more material than is humanly possible to handle...
Thomas Sowell handles it in a column titled "Random Thoughts". Here are just a few:
"Compromising by splitting the difference may solve many immediate problems by creating bigger long-run problems. Splitting the difference rewards the side with the most extreme and most intransigent position, guaranteeing continuing unreasonable demands and the continuing strife this generates."
"People who go ballistic over the high pay of some CEO of a multi-billion dollar corporation seldom bother to figure out whether, if that CEO agreed to work for nothing, that would be enough to bring the price of a one-dollar product down to 99 cents."
"Some people say it is "name-calling" if you refer to someone as a liberal. There is nothing inherently negative about the word "liberal." If it has acquired negative overtones, that is because of what liberals have done and the consequences that followed."
