In Freedom, Inequality, Primitivism and the Division of Labor, Murray Rothbard highlighted the difficultly involved in attempting to parody left-wing victimology. One of Rothbard's friends thought he could jokingly invent a class of oppressed victims: short people who suffer from society's "heightism." Rothbard pointed out to his friend that this had already been done, however the originator of this idea, Professor Saul D. Feldman, a sociologist at Case-Western Reserve, was serious. Like left-wing victimology, NASA's Space Shuttle program is such an absurdity, that parody is difficult. For example, one of the experiments on the Columbia's last mission was a joint … Continue reading Trouble in Deep Space