Donald Shoup has made a career out of studying the effects of government parking mandates on the way we drive and live. After a bit of a blogospheric kerfluffle about free parking, Shoup responds in detail to one of his most persistent and consistently wrong critics.
Borat: “I do a picture, only small, of the Tishnik Masacre. Where many Uzbeks…crushed!”
Kindly Gray Hippie: “How did you feel when you drew this?”
Borat: “Very proud!”.
KGH: “I’m just listening with sadness…a little sadness for your people…?”
Borat: “Yes…no, it is not sad. It is us who do the kill!”
When in doubt,
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I’ve been waiting for this. O’Toole really irks me sometimes.
@Will, I think Yglesias has the best pithy take on O’Toole: getting this stuff wrong is literally his job.
What an excellent, detailed and cutting take down of O’Toole.
Are there any independent scholars anywhere in the planning world that takes O’Toole and his views seriously? If not, how can Cato possibly justify their continuing and embarrassing relationship with this peddler of lazy lies?
@Matthew Schmitz, Shoup is a much better libertarian than O’Toole. Maybe Cato can just swap the one for the other?
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