Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader hates it when someone else states something apparently so self-evident that he feels like kicking himself for not thinking of it sooner. Your Maximum Leader is doubly down on himself when that someone not only states something self-evident, but does so in a such a concise manner that it is disarming.

To wit:

The current election is in part a referendum on Rawls versus Nozick.

That brilliant summary comes from Professor Greg Mankiw’s blog. Your Maximum Leader would have never read that were it not for the pointer from our friend FLG at Fear & Loathing in Georgetown.

Do you all know what makes this situation even worse… Your Maximum Leader feels this overwhelming urge to expand on Professor Mankiw’s line and discourse on Rawls and Nozick. But to do so would be a little intellecutally pretensious as well as ruin the simplicity of the cited line.

Carry on.