[lbo-talk] Fatal Equilibrium -- and Larry Summers

[Andy F]

On 5/1/06, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:

> I also like the variation on this attributed to Trotsky: "Everyone has a
> right to be a damn fool some of the time, but so&so abuses the
> privilege." I assume the president of Harvard has a lot of margin, but
> Summers _really_ abused the privilege. You can insult professors _or_
> scientists _or_ women, but if you insult all three it's too much.

Esp. when it's all three at the same time.

My ma (math major, onetime programmer and statistician) opined that it
was good that views such as Summers''s get aired every so often so
people can review why they're wrong.

--
Andy