Taking one more swing at the foolish nudgelords who associate the Soviet Union with environmental protection

Hey, wait a second? The authors of Nudge . . . they’re not idiots! One of them won the Nobel Prize, and people keep telling me that the other guy is really smart. You don’t get to be Henry Kissinger’s pal by being a dummy, right? And yet . . . they keep saying some really dumb things. Whassup with that? My guess is that they have no editor. Even the best of us make mistakes, even the best of us write some stupid things from time to time. If we’re lucky, though, we can show our writings to some trusted person who can point out where we’re wrong. Or to some complete strangers–like you blog commenters!–who feel free to point out where we’re wrong, or where they think we’re wrong. I absolutely looove when youall disagree with me. It’s a no-lose situation: either you find a legitimate error and then I can fix it and recalibrate my thinking as needed, or you’re wrong in your correction, but in that case it’s still a useful sign that I’ve failed to communicate clearly. I’m speaking here of…