I had no idea he was affiliated with the Hudson Institute. Thanks for the background info.
Marta
"W. Kiernan" wrote:
> Fumento! A few years back I stumbled on the book "Small is Beautiful"
> by E. F. Schumacher in a used book store. It's full of ideas that, I
> think, are valuable to anybody in engineering - at least I learned a lot
> from it and what I learned has been very useful to me. Well, only a
> couple of weeks later they published one of those "point-counterpoint"
> editorials in the local paper. On the one side of the page was an
> excerpt from Al Gore's "Earth in the Balance" and on the other side was
> sort of a rebuttal by this Fumento character. But Fumento didn't exactly
> address Gore's arguments; instead the main focus of his article was this
> loony rant against Schumacher and "Small is Beautiful." If you hadn't
> read the book yourself you'd have thought that Schumacher was a cross
> between Ned Ludd and Pol Pot. But if you had read "Small is Beautiful,"
> you'd have come away saying, "Wow, this Fumento guy's about the biggest
> liar I ever read!" First I ever heard of him, but that article fixed
> his name in my memory. As a lying dirtbag.
>
> You wanna cheap laugh, go check out Fumento's own web site,
> www.fumento.com, a section of which is devoted to slandering his
> opponents in the tone of a ragging match on an elementary school
> playground. What a loser! And then there are articles he himself
> wrote, which are indescribable and have to be experienced to be
> believed. Hard to imagine one can actually earn a living grunting out
> crap like that. The Hudson Institute must be desperate for polemical
> writers.
>
> Yours WDK - WKiernan at concentric.net