Meta Post: "Clumsy but Swift"

One of the consequences of not posting for over two weeks (due to a move...) is that I have dozens of posts in the works fueled by my horror and outrage over what is occurring in this country. It appears that Obama’s overt strategy is to overwhelm his opposition by rapidly attempting to take total control over virtually every aspect of our lives. I will give him credit for explicitly or implicitly following one of Sun Tzu’s great principles elucidated in his famed Art of War:

When doing battle, seek a quick victory.

A protracted battle will blunt weapons and dampen ardor.

If troops lay siege to a walled city, their strength will be exhausted.

If the army is exposed to a prolonged campaign, the nation's resources will not suffice.

When weapons are blunted, and ardor dampened, strength exhausted, and resources depleted, the neighboring rulers will take advantage of these complications.

Then even the wisest of counsels would not be able to avert the consequences that must ensue.

Therefore, I have heard of military campaigns that were clumsy but swift, but I have never seen military campaigns that were skilled but protracted.

No nation has ever benefited from protracted warfare.

His team clearly understands the value of a "clumsy but swift" campaign.

The sheer volume of potential commentary related to Obama's madness and the state of world affairs is so large that I am somewhat overwhelmed and do not know quite where to start. When overwhelmed you must prioritize, so I have formulated a few principles for dealing with this.

One is to try and stay general and tend to act more as an “intellectual wholesaler” rather than retailer. Two is to only dissect concrete issues that have pedagogic value in clarifying these general principles or that involve life threatening political issues that must be defeated (like socialized medicine). Three, where possible, seek the entertainment value of facetiously attacking this insanity because it is fun.

Here are a few of the posts I am working on:

* The importance of refuting the argument that "capitalism" is to blame for the current crisis

* How to stop socialized medicine without doing anything

* Context part II: Towards a theory of induction

* The pragmatist virtue of complexity

* Obama changing U.S. from paper tiger to just paper

* How prices can go down under inflation - update on Fed

* Obama's pragmatism: pattern of stating outright contradictions and meaning it

* Examples of Anthem like economic regression - are we in a depression?

* Follow up: why houses are not investments

* Comment on The Reith Lectures

* Update on the religious left

* Follow up: "the fatigue of central planning"

Anyway, I am back on the job and if anyone yearns for a post on one of these topics let me know and be sure that if no one yearns I will write about it anyway. Hopefully you will continue to find that although this blog is free, it is worth every penny.

More to come...