If one buys Matthew Nisbet's argument that members of the public are "cognitive misers" (and it seems to me a pretty reasonable argument that I'm at least willing to seriously entertain), then there is little point to giving the public the details.

This is of course a problem for me, as I have no other marketable skills. I'm thinking of learning to weld.

That's a comment left on a Prometheus post by John Fleck, an apparently ink-stained wretch who runs jfleck at inkstain: A few thoughts from John Fleck, a writer of journalism and other things living in New Mexico.

Phunny. I'll take the feed for a while to see if there are repeats.