Wishing for the end of a bad idea...

...the bad idea in question being the embrace of austerity as an economic cure-all. I'm a day or two behind, but Nobel economics laureate and NY Times columnist Paul Krugman lays things out nicely in his latest op-ed. Here's the punch line:

...the drive for austerity has lost its intellectual fig leaf, and stands exposed as the expression of prejudice, opportunism and class interest it always was. And maybe, just maybe, that sudden exposure will give us a chance to start doing something about the depression we’re in.

MORE ON THAT here.

RANDOM BUT GOOD. Here are some rambling thoughts by Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano on books, life, and such. My favorite line is this one:

If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.

SPEAKING OF NATURE, some animals have its oppositite, i.e. culture.

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