One of the great things about the Captain Capitalism blog is it gets the stupidest right-wingers -- after all, smart ones can read real economists like Greg Mankiw. But they're foot soldires -- useful idiots --- so Aaron has to keep them in line, and it's easy 'cause they're stupid.
Consider today's post on global warming. Now, there's not many things Aaron knows less about than economics, but geophysics is definitely one of them! And frankly he's got not a clue whether you should be lookin' at Greenland or Swaziland or Queens, man: it's all the same to Aaron. But that's OK; the readers are dumb so he can snow them. He does that first by referencing data at a proprietary site, so the sheep won't go anyway. Note that in defiance of the site's request, he doesn't cite the data: that's OK, plagiarism is Aaron's bag. But that means the readers can't see the obvious: that basically, the data end 100 years ago!
Hilarious, huh? Almost the entire industrial revolution except fot the tippy bit at the right hand side -- that upward inflection -- is neatly cut out! He can show irrelevant data and the losers go away convinced (which is pretty much his trick anyway).
Then he throws in a snakry bit about the Earth's four billion year history (oh, so it's hot, huh? What about when it was molten? What about that, smart boy? and the sheep know what to bleat. Just like they bleat in code about blacks and stuff! Simple!
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