Gaddang, am I ever sorry I led with the estate tax in my news post.  But I don't think my insisting on the forest rather than the trees will do any additional good in that conversation.
Now, back to the challenge - can I completely rewrite the core chapter of my dissertation without getting too far behind my original draft date (1/8)? Current target: 1/11.
Go!
    
  Now, back to the challenge - can I completely rewrite the core chapter of my dissertation without getting too far behind my original draft date (1/8)? Current target: 1/11.
Go!
so i had to look up this news post - b/c i missed it the first time. wow. you set off a lil mini shit storm
it seemed like a lot of folks missed what you were getting at. what *i* understood it as saying was that your critique was not really about *justice* (which sort of comes from outside the market/rights paradim we have set up right now). instead, you looked at social stability and national character (the idea that we should be able to advance ourselves as part of the american creed), and how gross inequality endangers that. it was more *immanment* than that. (i thought it was a good point anyway.) - folks kinda turned it into some lame communist vs. libertarian crap debate. so it goes...