[The Great Satan]

It all depends on your point of view.

Got any more gassy liberal airhead platitudes you'd like to post before we move on?

[liberallarry]

I objected to the euphemism "bracing medicine". I still do.

My liberal "airhead platitudes" are no worse and no better then your conservative, "rock-head proofs".

[liberallarry]

The article wants to make the point that Europe has gone too far in its attempt to moderate the brutal side of capitalism - resulting in ossification and the death of the entrepreneurial and inventive spirit.

Perhaps so, but European science, at least, is alive and well.

The article attempts to argue by analogy with the '30s, blaming the length and depth of the Great Depression on the actions of Hoover and the Roosevelts. I think that's false, for the reasons I've stated.