BAY OF PIGS, n. Pigs at bay.
BLACK DEATH, n. The means by which God wiped out much of the population of Europe in the 14th century, thereby providentially creating a shortage of labor that enabled workers to demand and get better pay.
DIXON, JEANE, n. The true mastermind behind the conspiracy to assassinate JFK.
DRESS CODE, n. Don't suit yourself, suit us.
HAMAN, n. In the Old Testament book of Esther, an advisor to the Persian king Ahasuerus. In the Koran, an advisor to the nameless Pharaoh of the Exodus story. Apparently, Allah got his Bible stories mixed up when he was rehashing them for the Prophet Muhammad (may piss be upon him).
HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, n. A blues singer whose signature song is "Nobody Knows the Treblinka I've Seen."
MIRACLE, n. One of God's special effects.
NERO, n. The Antichrist identified by the number 666 in the book of Revelation, according to some preterist partypoopers.
PROVIDENCE, n. God supposedly sticking his nose into mundane matters, according to someone who has benefitted from, or at least survived, said nose-sticking.
RADICAL TRADITIONALIST, n. A hunter-gatherer who spends his spare time writing books
denouncing Judaism, the Hermetic conspiracy, and civilization.
RECREATIONAL DRUGS, n. pl. The type of drugs popular among people in recreational vehicles.
SERMON ON THE MOUNT, n. The sermon in which Jesus, according to the Gospels, did not see eye to eye with Moses vis a vis an eye for an eye. An illustration of the immutable nature of "God's law"? Possibly not.
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Greg Clark's A Farewell to Alm's notes that due to Malthusianism the Black Death was one of the best things to happen to the population of Europe (at least the ones that survived).
TGGP: Thanks for the reference. I
hadn't heard of that book.
A better link about his opinion on the black death is here:
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2007/09/reply_to_clark.html
which I found via the supplementary readings page from here:
http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/a_farewell_to_alms.html
I have a recent post on Clark's book:
http://entitledtoanopinion.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/greg-clark-responds-to-critics/
TGGP: Thanks for the links.
TGGP: On second thought, I had heard of Clark's book, briefly, via something I'd seen on Entitled to an Opinion, but I didn't know what the book was about and had forgotten the title.
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