The Mugwumpery

Abstraction is good, magic is not. Remove magic.

Be nice. Work hard.

Be polite to armed people.

Be tolerant.

Correlation is not causation.

Don’t buy consumer goods on credit.

Hard cases make bad law.

In One Time Pads We Trust. (All others pay cash.)

Internalize externalities.

It’s a democracy; compromise.

Keep Right Except To Pass.

Life is only fair on average.

Spend less than you earn. (Other people do; you can too.)

Subsidy is the root of all evil. (Separate post coming on this…someday.)