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  • G.K. Chesterton on Vegetarianism

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    “THEN, of course, there is the larger and more philosophical riddle of why the vegetarians, or fruitarians, try to make their dishes sound, or even seem, like meat dishes? Why do they talk non-sense about nut-cutlets or tomato toad-in-the-hole? Why do they make nutton rhyme to mutton, and nutter rhyme to butter? It seems a…

  • The 1 percent needs better defenders

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    The Economist Jun 17th 2013, 20:18 by M.S.  APPARENTLY someone, perhaps John Kenneth Galbraith, once said that the way to debate Milton Friedman was to wait for him to say “Let us assume…” and then immediately interrupt and say “No, let’s not assume that.” (Via Clay Shirky, via Dan Davies.) I thought of this quip on Saturday while…