Showing posts with label christmas carol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christmas carol. Show all posts

Monday, December 23, 2013

On the economic debate raging behind a Christmas classic

Never mind that the author makes the common mistake of confusing the spelling of "etymologist" and "entomologist," this is a very salient angle on the economics underlying Dickens' classic, A Christmas Carol. 

Monday, April 22, 2013

Bomber said Bible was a 'copy' of the Koran

Um, ... no. This brings to mind that scene in Dickens' A Christmas Carol where the two "ghastly" children are seen huddling under the robe of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, and Scrooge is warned that, of the two: Ignorance and Want, the former is the worse. And now we have seen and can recognize Ignorance by its fruit.