First You Ignore Them, Then You Quarrel With Them, Then You Laugh At Them, Then You Win Dept.

The Closed Minds Problem - NYTimes.com

... is there a reason I go for door #3 ["Point out the wrongness in ways designed to grab readers’ attention — with ridicule where appropriate, with snark, and with names attached"], other than simply telling the truth and having some fun while I’m at it? Yes — because the point is not to convince Rick Santelli or Allan Meltzer that they are wrong, which is never going to happen. It is, instead, to deter other parties from false equivalence. Inflation cul...