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Comment author: Richard_Hollerith 07 October 2007 10:53:46PM 0 points [-]

Yes, joke. Irony often yields wonderful conciseness, but can make the person I am replying to feel attacked, so maybe I should refrain.

Although you display a healthy scepticism towards America's civic religion, many of your colleague-bloggers here are pickled in it, as evidenced by the fascination with the agreement theorem and with flimsy evidence for the genius of crowds for estimating weights and numbers of marbles, so I get eager to counter their pernicious influence.

I was happy to see evidence that you have looked at Unqualified Reservations, which IMO is second only to Nick Szabo's blog on our legal and political institutions.