As I was watching this I kept thinking how much Noam sounds like Jefferson. I’m sure I can’t be the first person to think that, and I don’t give too much credit to philosophers/intellectuals from the 1700’s (not because they weren’t intelligent, but because we hopefully have digested and improved or disproved their ideas accordingly). . . but I do love love a good “smart people” discussion.

Since I’m on politics I’d like to find a way to tie this into my current (and longstanding) aggravation of american conservatives and their idiotic focus on such a narrow range of issues ( the range of issues is mostly what they were told to be concerned about on that particular day). Those issues border on irrelevance to me.

Luckily I can’t ever make the effort to tie anything into my other anything so you’re all off the hook 🙂