{"id":520,"date":"2008-11-26T02:24:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T09:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/26\/thomas-sowell-on-goats\/"},"modified":"2008-11-26T02:24:20","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T09:24:20","slug":"thomas-sowell-on-goats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/26\/thomas-sowell-on-goats\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Sowell on goats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Sowell helps us <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/Common\/PrintPage.aspx?g=f1237957-5ca2-47e2-8649-0981e31ea61a&amp;t=c\">separate the sheep from the goats.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is an old Russian fable, with different versions in other countries, about two poor peasants, Ivan and Boris. The only difference between them was that Boris had a goat and Ivan didn&#8217;t. One day, Ivan came upon a strange-looking lamp and, when he rubbed it, a genie appeared. She told him that she could grant him just one wish, but it could be anything in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Ivan said, &#8220;I want Boris&#8217; goat to die.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Variations on this story in other countries suggest that this tells us something about human beings, not just Russians. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-520\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/26\/thomas-sowell-on-goats\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-520\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/26\/thomas-sowell-on-goats\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-520\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/26\/thomas-sowell-on-goats\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/26\/thomas-sowell-on-goats\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/26\/thomas-sowell-on-goats\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Sowell helps us separate the sheep from the goats. 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