Posted by
The Hermit Crab on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 2:58:45 PM
Before the flood waters began to subside in Pakistan, our nincompoop Secretary of State, Hillarious Clinton, was on the scene, telling the Pakistanis (and everyone else) that the floods had been caused by ... you guessed it ... global warming. After all, we never had floods before the internal combustion engine, did we? I was moved to this reflection when I came home yesterday and found my wife watching a musical about Noah and the ...
Hey, wait a minute...
According to the leftist power-mongers, global warming has caused floods, droughts, melting glaciers, severe storms, etc. Meanwhile, the average temperature here on Earth hasn't budged in 12 years. Here we have the apotheosis of leftist science. Global warming causes everything except global warming.
When famed "trouble tourist"
P. J. O'Rourke visited Russia during the Gorbachev era, we spoke to a Russian citizen about Gorby's having won the Nobel Peace Prize. With perfect Slavic sour humor, the man replied that he had noticed that the prize hadn't been for economics. That same Russian, and many more like him, must have seen the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Economics to leftist columnist and New York Times scribbler Paul Krugman with grim satisfaction. Had Krugman been at the helm of the Russian economy during those years, the Soviet Union's economy would still have collapsed in flaming ruins, so just having
a Nobel Prize winner in charge of your economy is not necessarily a help. You have to have a
sane one.
I read a recent item in which the Washington Post's
ombudsman was praised for admitting that the paper had mis-reported (with standard leftist media bias) some story or another (I've forgotten which). Publications like the Post and the Treason Times (once known as the New York Times) get far too much credit for employing so-called ombudsman. This shallow dodge enables them to willfully mis-report with banner headlines, issue a small mea culpa on page 10a, and declare the matter settled. The confession means and is worth nothing if the the biased reporting continues as before. To borrow from the late
Ambrose Bierce, "Jesus did not tell the sinful woman to go and sin more."