Random Analogies
The commonalities are the fluidity of the watery surfaces. If you put a small boat on the surface of pond, it will float and slowly move around. The media in which it is sitting is fluid. The frozen surface of a pond is solid. If a small boat were place on top it would just sit there, motionless.
" When buying and selling is regulated, regulators are the first thing to be bought and sold.
The only way to stop govt from giving money to the politically powerful is to not let govt have money.
Regulatory capture is like conservation of momentum; if the situation satisfies the constraints, the results will happen, no matter how much one might like otherwise, no matter how much better things would be if those results didn't happen."
" Carotenoids are like chlorophyll b: they cannot substitute chlorophyll a in photosynthesis; energy has to be transferred to chlorophyll a. They are red, orange, or yellow pigments found in all chloroplasts and in cyanobacteria "
