Laugh of the Day

Susan linked in comments to an old Megan piece from last year about evil liberal bias in academia, and for some reason I've been reading the comments.
And it paid off. In part of a longer comment can be found the following gem;

I think there is a perfectly plausible argument that the 'superior knowledge claim' can attach to finance and business, but not to the liberal arts: Finance has to stand up to real-world and market forces - and wrongheaded liberal ideas can be seen to fail in the real world.
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Posted by Jason Van Steenwyk | March 29, 2008 1:57 AM

Also, wrongheaded conservative ideas can be seen to fail in the real world.


Ohmi.
And it gets better. This is his response when challenged on the failure of conservative economic theory.

"Except that it's not; according to some 'respected academics' it's because there was too much regulation.
So what's the deal? If things were as clear-cut as you say they are, something like this would seem to be a long-settled issue."
France.
'Nuff said.
Posted by Jason Van Steenwyk | March 29, 2008 11:15 AM

Jason Van Steenwyk, will you gay marry me?