The Way Things Break

Thanks to a find by In It For the Gold, I will now be adding a new blog called "The Way Things Break" to my Google Reader feeds.

I don't know anything about the author, but he has crafted an amazingly thorough and well sourced shredding of a recent Bjorn Lomborg op-ed, spouting more shrill paranoia about "inquisitions" and stifling of free speech.

If you don't subsribe to the blog, I highly recommend reading at least that one article, it alone is worth the price of admission.

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