Ludwig Glaeser obituary

[Kevin]

For those with time to care, this is an extremely creepy commentary, in which a highly-placed right-wing academic sicko trashes his father's values in the guise of thanking him:
http://www.nysun.com/article/42594


I did not know him, but I suspect Ludwig Glaeser deserved better.

[Richard Haut]

The only thing that the unpleasant Obituary tells us, apart from the partially-hidden impression that the father was a most interesting man, is that he must have been deeply and rightly disappointed in his son.

The ideas that Edward Glaeser spouts about the way that cities should be - in the loosest sense of the word - designed are fatuous in extreme.

However he has produced some in-depth research and profound thoughts such as in his Oeuvre "Why Have Americans Become More Obese?", he proposes the extreme and subtle theory: "This increase is primarily the result of consuming more calories." (Feel free to take notes at the back there).

However he failed to acknowledge the source of this idea who was the inventor of the one-and-only diet which really works. When it was considered that our friend Yogi was, even by Yogi's standards, a bit overweight, the Ranger put him on the diet. Instead of eating five picnic baskets a day, Yogi was only allowed to eat four picnic baskets a day. (For any Harvard grads, that means that Yogi was to consume less calories).

To have had the chance to have met Papa Glaeser would, I believe, have been a most enlightening and enjoyable experience - but I would go a long way to avoid the son.