Thursday, May 19. 2011
 Update on Prof Stanley Fish
Newt Apologizes To Paul Ryan, Begs Democrats Not To Use His Own Quotes In Ads
General Motors Sponsors Propaganda Film Promoting Genocidal Chinese Communist Regime
Why Is Soros Spending Over $48 Million Funding Media Organizations?
France's culture, the article says, writes off a lot of behavior that would be considered in the Anglo-American world to be borderline menacing and assaulting -- not rape, but the knocking on that door -- as some kind of boys-will-be-boys seduction.
Obama came to Boston in March to rub elbows with wealthy businessmen -- whose businesses have benefitted from his policies. For the pleasure of face time with the President, these businessmen contributed to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, anywhere from a few hundred dollars to more than $30,000.
Wednesday, May 18. 2011
Many Jews and decent liberals are having a “consciousness-raising” experience. The three incidents at CUNY this past academic year honoring extremist foes of Israel, and throwing up chaff about academic freedom to distract, have struck to the quick in New York City and spread throughout the country. The contamination in our core institutions of the blatant Israel-hate that has melded the far left and Palestinian apologists and advocates has activated a ground-swell of reaction. Can this be the start of a roll-back? Yes, as more and more Americans speak up in defense of Western values and strike back at those who undermine them.
The Obama-CYA, George Soros funded, Palestinians apologists of J-Street, leftist Jews, defended Tony Kushner receiving an honorary degree from CUNY as “a victory for all of those in the Jewish community and beyond who cherish freedom of speech and are unwilling to punish people for the content of their political views.”
The Jewish establishment replies to the left’s double-standard:
The Jewish Community Relations Council of New York has written to the Chair of the Board of Trustees at CUNY, Benno Schmidt, and to CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein. This Council represents approximately fifty Jewish organizations (including the ADL, AJC, Hadassah, Hillel, Jewish National Fund, Young Israel, New York Board of Rabbis, UJA, Union of Reform Judaism, the Orthodox Union, the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation, ZOA, the American Sephardi Association, etc.) and is headed by some Major Jewish Players.
We are troubled though that it appears that the explicit right and duty of a CUNY Trustee under Policy 1.19 – to express his/her views and vote his/her conscience – are now being challenged….We believe that academic freedom cannot be exclusively limited to faculty and/or students. Indeed, that right applies to all sectors of the academy, including Trustees. We are shocked that people – including zealous advocates of academic freedom and free speech – have called for a Trustee’s removal because they disagree with his ideas and/or his desire to articulate them. Mr. Wiesenfeld’s freedom to state his views and opinions – whether one agrees with him or not – is equal to the freedom granted to faculty, students or even honorary degree nominees.
The New York Times opinionator on education adds:
There are of course other contexts in which academic freedom is at stake, but the awarding of an honorary degree to Tony Kushner or anyone else isn’t one of them.
The 55,000 member Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, on 3500 worldwide campuses, wrote to the CUNY Board of Trustees to reverse the decision to grant an honorary degree to Tony Kushner:
By rejecting your earlier decision to table the nomination and put it up for discussion, you have, sadly, abrogated your responsibility….
The roll-back needs your active involvement in your house of worship, in your alma mater, in your newspaper. This is a "tea party" requiring all to attend.
UPDATE: Tony Kushner, on Facebook, says, " it seems like with each successive fight around the Israel-Palestine issue (first Moustafa Bayoumi, then Kristofer, now this), our side gets stronger and stronger." Kushner calls for "You want Wiesenfeld off the Board? Organize for it..."Now let's make a bigger, f-ing deal. Go to it, folks!" Bring it on, Tony, as you cement your and your allies reps lower than already. Kushner titles his post, "We Won." Kushner, you've won a whoppin'.
Nowadays, all it takes is one jackass to mess things up for everybody else. Why does one whining person have more power than hundreds of non-whining people? "I'm offended. Rearrange the world for me."
Given the statistical likelihood that there is at least one stupid, selfish or self-righteous jackass fault-finder in any group, it's guaranteed that somebody will bitch about something every time anything happens.
Hence the ACLU. ACLU Wants Historic Cross Covered During Graduation.
And how come my offended whining about their whining carries no water at all? Am I the wrong kind of whiner?
Tuesday, May 17. 2011
 No sooner had the tin-foil hat world just begun to gin up conspiracy theories about Bin Laden than we get the new story about the "great man" (I had never heard of him before) Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Now we have to have a new slew of conspiracies about him, as if life were not interesting and confusing enough without them.
It is difficult to keep up with all of the conspiracy theories these days.
 "Dr. Lastname" is, for me, the Dear Abby of the internet. Here's why you do not tell the truth, at work: The Truth Fairy
Obamacare waiver-mania
Obama Created or Saved 450,000 Government Jobs, Lost 1,000,000 Private Sector Jobs With Stimulus
New bombshell of a book by David Mamet
The addiction to the urban front lawn
Obama’s latest fake plan for more drilling
Amnesty International Is Keeping Dubious Company
Here we go again—UC Irvine's annual propoganda parade
VDH: The End of an Idea — Why Affirmative Action Should Stop. A quote:
First, what exactly is race today in America in which intermarriage and immigration have increasingly made it — and its ugly twin racial purity — often irrelevant? We are no longer a country largely 85-90% “white” and 10-12% “black,” but something almost hard to categorize in racial terms. Do university admission officers adopt the 1/16, one-drop racial rule of the old Confederacy? Does being one fourth African-American qualify one for consideration; three-fourths Japanese; half Mexican-American? Does a simple surname add — and often by intent — authenticity and credulity? The son of Linda Hernandez and Jason Smith — a Bobby Smith — is not considered, without genealogical investigation, Hispanic, but the son of Linda Smith and Jason Hernandez — a Roberto Hernandez of equal 50/50 ancestry — is almost instantly? If so, is race a state of mind and personal choice more than circumstances of birth? What exactly is white and what a minority — a dark-skinned Armenian-American is the former, a light-skinned Colombian American is the latter? A dark Sicilian-American is white, Barack Obama is black?
Monday, May 16. 2011
People are asking me about the IMF head's "problem".
If all the stories and rumors are true, he doesn't have a personal psychological problem (except his new personal political and legal problems). My guess would be that the issue is that people like him have no problem.
In other words, he just does whatever he feels like and doesn't give a damn because he gets away with it and his associates and his wife don't seem to care all that much. To diagnose that (eg Impulse Disorder, or Sex Addiction) is simply to excuse, or dignify, the sort of bad behavior that most people decide, often with great struggle, to limit to their fantasy lives. Everybody has illicit ideas and desires, whether consciously or unconsciously. That's why we are given the gift of the Ten Commandments.
Now that he has supposedly (as the gossip says) had his fun raping and/or seducing God knows how many attractive women and girls, and finally got caught, watch him now act the victim and seek help for a psychological problem. They always do, after they get caught. Clinton too.
From here:
The charges are roiling France, where Mr. Strauss-Kahn was the favorite to be the Socialist nominee for President next year and was even leading in the polls against Nicolas Sarkozy. The French are legendary for nonchalance toward the sexual appetites of their politicians, and they sniffed at Americans who disapproved of Bill Clinton when he lied under oath about sex. But we doubt even the French will be blasé about assaulting a hotel chamber maid.
Addendum, from France:
"Politicians ... enjoy a particular tolerance on this subject," he wrote. "Part of the shock comes also from the unusual scene, until now unthinkable here: police arresting a top-level politician on a matter of morals."
 Death to high school English - My college students don't understand commas, far less how to write an essay. Is it time to rethink how we teach?
Do you care about how Tom Friedman feels?
Why Don't We Hear About Soros' Ties to Over 30 Major News Organizations? (h/t Linkiest)
Green Stamps?
More stamps: It's racist to discuss food stamps
Associating food stamps with blacks is racist, seems to me. Most American poor are white.
Ben Stein: "Arab Spring" is a fraud
Who is rich?
A Banner Day for Media Bias: The NYT’s Friday the 13th On Global Warming
When immorality was excusable
Samuelson: The Affluent Elderly
Government Schools: Antiques Preserved in Political Amber
Greece is almost certainly heading for default.
The EU was a giant mistake, an attempt to create a bureaucratic empire like the European empires of old. There will be rebellion, destructive immigration, dissolution, etc. No wars. though.
Sunday, May 15. 2011
 All the kids in England want to be writers.
No math and no heavy lifting, but how do you make a living from it? Similar question: How many decent musicians can raise a family on making music?
Bill Clinton: Create Internet agency
Related: Bill Clinton is a dangerous man
As RR said, "If it keeps moving, regulate it."
Mark Steyn: Who will restore reality to politics?
Trouble on the horizon for David Mamet
Since when are theater-goers Lefties? We are avid theater-goers, and we aren't.
Obama to Open Offshore Areas to Oil Drilling for First Time
That's a start. But let's get 100 nuke plants going.
What If Justice Demands Open Borders?
Worked out fine for the Romans...
Health Care Solutions: Market (Same-day House Calls) vs. Government (36 Days to See Family Doc)
The Islamization of Nashville
Commentary:The B'Tselem Witch Trials
Denmark decides to renew border enforcement
Open has not worked out well for the Danes, but it's a little EU rebellion. First of many, no doubt.
Immigration thoughts at The Examiner:
"Today," the president continued in his speech, " there are an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants here in the United States. Some crossed the border illegally. Others avoid immigration laws by overstaying their visas. Regardless of how they came, the overwhelming majority of these folks are just trying to earn a living and provide for their families."
Yo, Barack, my man, I'm just trying to make a living and provide for my family. So are millions of other Americans, those who were actually born here and others who immigrated here legally.
Since you seem so willing to cut illegal immigrants some slack when they break the law, how about cutting those of us who aren't illegal immigrants some slack when we break the law too?
Outnumbered: Chronicles of a Manhattan Conservative
George Will: The Dreamliner nightmare
Obama does not want me to fly on the Dreamliner, but I want to.
A trail of stalled or abandoned HUD projects
How are education and housing Federal government jobs? They are in far over their heads.
Ace: What if Supermakets Operated Like Public Schools
Will Islamists use Israeli wireless cell phone rechargers?
Darn right they will.
Powerful case against the fantasy of high speed rail
Rail is great in the right place, for the right purpose. Such places are rare in the US but, in the Boston - DC corridor, rail is good. Still subsidized, but heavily used - and all those cars could not fit onto the NYC roads.
Steyn yet again: Mitt’s health-care “solution” is a major problem for his presidential campaign.
Photo: The Striped Bass on the steeple of the Cuttyhunk Church. I am due another visit to good old Cuttyhunk. I am due another visit to Monhegan Island, too. Such a big, wonderful earth, and so little time to see and do everything...which reminds me of a story. A year or two ago, my energetic and ambitious Wall St. daughter got into some jolly verbal jousting with her boss. He challenged her to sky-dive. She did, and has the vid to prove it. She is doing well at work, and having great fun with it.
Saturday, May 14. 2011
 Insty:
SHOULD WE START PUTTING THE COMMAS outside the quotation marks?
What's in your luggage?
Married couples now a minority in Tennessee
Do SEIU members know what their union does?
Are we looking at the end of Fannie and Freddie?
16 Civilians Killed in NATO Strike in Tripoli – Media and Leftists Yawn
A 2-week online symposium at Patheos: For Life and Family: Faith and the Future of Social Conservatism
Boeing and the Union Berlin Wall - Between 2000 and 2008, 4.8 million Americans
moved from forced union states to right-to-work states—that's one person
every minute of every day.
Sen Hatch on the Dems: "They play politics very, very tough, they play it well, and they don’t give a damn about what’s right and what’s wrong."
Bin Laden's Harem pictures
London's Wiener Library: Lest we forget
What's the point of urban setbacks?
Here comes the water
It's tough on these folks, but they know they live on a flood plain, and know it will happen once in a while despite the levees which attempt to tame the untameable and mighty Father of Waters. That Mississippi silt from flooding is the reason they have such great farmland.
Geert Wilders spoke in Nashville this week:
My dear American friends, you cannot imagine how we envy your First Amendment. The day when America
follows the example of Europe and Canada and introduces so-called “hate
speech crimes” which is only used to punish people who are critical of
islam, that day America will have lost its freedom.
The New Science:
"Observational evidence is not very useful."
Thursday, May 12. 2011
Historic topo maps of New England and New York
Social Security Benefits, Finances, and Policy Options: A Primer
Navy to chaplains: never mind
NJ Police Union 'Outraged' White House Celebrates Rapper Who Glorifies Cop
Killer
Why the Left doesn't understand (or want) American exceptionalism
Commentary: The Other Rosenberg Case
Bullying and the bullying state
Obama pushing return to sub-prime mortgages
What could go wrong?
Survey: 85% of New College Grads Move Back in with Mom and Dad
Do Mom and Dad want that?
SEALS reportedly used an HK416 in bin Laden assault
Via SDA:
But he made that decision to go without telling Pakistan and that took
some real courage, as much courage as our Navy SEALs did in pulling off a
near flawless operation.
Related at Iowahawk: One Day in the War Room.
Related, pic below via Doug Ross:
The SEALs are the heroes of the story. It is rare for us to get even a glimpse into what they do on their jobs.
Wednesday, May 11. 2011
Know what a Newfie accent sounds like?
Portlandia!
Satire meets reality
Has James Hansen lost it?
He's an ordinary crank
Jacobson: Is your BA really BS?
Why Pastors Should Get Their Heads Examined - Young
pastors dive into ministry with a plan to fix the church and save the
world -- only to discover that they too need fixing and saving.
Has Hillary Clinton gone neocon?
Barro: Dodging the Pension Disaster
Long essay, spells it all out
The Politics of Protection - The battles over the Endangered Species Act are all too human.
Climate change 'could disrupt wi-fi and hit power supply'
Never stop being afraid
League of Women Voters is a partisan org
How are they a non-profit if they are?
'Maybe he was looking for the bathroom': Family defends Yemeni
passenger who stormed cockpit, shouting 'Allahu Akbar' as plane came in
to land at San Francisco
He says militant Quakers but I say Presbyterians
California Balks at Public Display of American Flag - It’s an impermissible “public expression.”
The End Of The Sarah Palin Fanboys (And Girls)?
Study: Conn. Resident Overtaxed - State Ranks No. 1 In Taxes
Onion: Team Owners Object to MLB's New Run-Sharing Agreement
Bruce Thornton: The Wages of Appeasement:
...there is no greater example of the power of duplicitous negotiation
than Hitler’s brilliant manipulation of Chamberlain in their three
meetings. More than seventy years later it is still painful to read
Chamberlain’s naïve reports of his "influence" over Hitler, who in fact
considered the Prime Minister a "little worm."
Noam Chomsky, Osama Bin Laden's Fellow Traveler
Obama: In A Time Of 9% Unemployment, I Call On Congress To Legalize
Millions Of New Low Wage, Unskilled Workers. Oh And I’d Really Like
Hispanics To Think I’m Serious About This And Vote For Me Next Year
CA lifeguards can make over $200,000/year
and the chicks for free...
Tuesday, May 10. 2011
How to Make a Movie
Egypt: Situation Deteriorating Badly and Rapidly
Guess we made the right decision to skip Egypt this year. I don't think they like me anymore - or any tourist dollars. Their loss.
Mayor Mike weak on budgeting
RomneyCare's bad outcomes keep coming.
Us vs. Them: The Idle Rich vs. the Working Rich
Subsidizing College Education: Why it Might Actually Increase Income Inequality
UK: Nuclear power should be favoured over plans to build thousands of offshore
wind turbines, the Government's climate advisers have indicated.
Duh.
Introduction to Labor Studies: My first-hand account
The hostility of labor to capital puzzles me. Where would the jobs come from?
From the Chronicle of HE: Totems in America:
We are faced here with a profusion of double standards. These days, honorary
degrees are unfortunately mainly exercises in appealing to the vanity of
celebrities. Denying one to a celebrity who already has more than a dozen may
wound his vanity—but it is surely just a scratch, no matter how much Mr. Kushner
wails. On the other hand, colleges and universities award honorary degrees when
they are not just looking for crowd-pleasers, to people whose lives and actions
are exemplary and who warrant emulation. In that sense, boards of trustees
would do well to follow Mr. Wiesenfeld’s lead. They should be asking more
questions about the people routinely sent up for their approval. They would
find that Mr. Kushner is far from the only one picked more as a totem of
political correctness than for his actual accomplishments.
Monday, May 9. 2011
 Moore's Law still going strong
Moms, ‘Myths’ and Cultural Marxism
Barnes: On Spending Cuts, Democrats Give Voters the Brush Off
Republicans will not be killing 350,000 women a year by de-funding Planned Parenthood.
SEIU drops mask, goes full commie (h/t, Tiger)
Nearly Half Of Detroit's Adults Are Functionally Illiterate, Report Finds
Obvious solution: more money for schools!
From VDH's Thoughts on a Surreal Depression:
...in the present depression, the out of work and poor are as numerous, but both unhappier and yet far better off than prior generations. This is not the rant of some right-wing laudator temporis acti, or the death throes of an aging old white guy, but rather empirically based and shared by most of my friends in the ascendant Mexican-American middle and upper-middle classes, many of whom are becoming quite conservative.
The cars of our poorer brethren in our major discount stores are late model and often expensive. People get into them with full carts of food and clothing. Housing here is cheap and good. How to square this circle between official poverty and misery and the veneer of a well-off general public?
and
I did an experiment the other day. I priced “wicker” furniture at Kmart and Wal-Mart and then drove up to an upscale North Fresno design outdoor living boutique. In short, the local version from China was about $300 for an ensemble, the high-end version was priced at $1700. To the naked eye, they were again almost identical and explain what I mean by the “veneer” of affluence. Ditto everything from jogging clothes to watches, and one can be outfitted in Selma for 10% of the cost of the brands of those popular in Palo Alto.
Is government spending what makes the US great?
Is every driver in Russia drunk?
Good for giggles
Government offers payouts to Hispanic, female farmers who claim discrimination
Powerline:
One wonders: if killing bin Laden was a courageous, gutsy decision by Barack Obama, where were the liberals when President Bush approved the killing of Zarqawi? Do you remember any of them praising that decision as courageous and "game changing?" No, neither do I.
Horrible!… Juan Williams Claims the US "Pulls Out Teeth & Eyeballs" of Terror Detainees (Video)
Hope and Change and Noam
Even Some Liberals Horrified by Ethnic Studies Agenda
AP IMPACT: China's spying seeks secret US info
Hamas' useful idiots
Drug thugs called greatest security threat in the Americas
Rare rally tests Vietnam's religious tolerance
Pakistan’s ISI On Trial….In Chicago
Home Market Takes a Tumble
Emotions run high on days of Remembrance and Independence
Bamboozled: Two Recent Biographies Shed New Light on Liberal Icons. It begins:
Did you hear that ripping sound? Two liberal icons known by their silly stage names — Mahatma Gandhi and Malcolm X — have just been torn down from their sanctified perches thanks to a pair of massively researched but finally damning new biographies.
Both men, it turns out, were at pains to take on phony identities. Each hid his homosexuality, each was racist, each took pains to manufacture favorable coverage, each was driven by petty hatreds instead of shining ideals — each of these supposedly principled figures was an out-and-out phony.
Sunday, May 8. 2011
I thought one of the most interesting articles to drift through recently was California Prison Academy: Better Than a Harvard Degree. Give it a spin.
What made it particularly intriguing is that you know the author wanted to put a negative slant on it, i.e., the lavish benefits and pensions the guards receive are further proof of this once great state's demise — but she just couldn't. The numbers were simply overwhelming. The only logical summation one can arrive at upon finishing it is that only a moron would go to an Ivy League school, or even college in general.
Why bother going through all that, when you can expend a tenth the effort and end up in a cushier position when you retire at an earlier age?
But wait.
Before you send your boss that angry "I QUIT, ASSBITE!" email and head for the nearest California Prison Guard Academy, let me toss out another golden opportunity (they don't call it the 'Golden State' for nuthin') that you might find even more attractive. We'll use a photographic display to help you decide.
The scenario:
You're at your job, tending to people's needs, when suddenly you're confronted with one of your young charges in distress.
Of the following two choices, please pick the person in distress that you'd most like to see before you:
If you chose 'B', be sure to check out this amazing job opportunity!
Oh, to be young again!
Saturday, May 7. 2011
 From the royal wedding to this: VIOLENCE BREAKS OUT AS HUNDREDS OF ISLAMISTS Hold Mock Osama Funeral at US Embassy in London
Wake up, England. You should know what we do with countries that harbor terrorists.
Remedial History Student Lawrence O'Donnell Gets Schooled By Condoleezza Rice
Models Say Climate Change Has Already Whacked Grain Yields
Since when are models facts?
Stanley Thornton, Liberal Avatar
We all sometimes want to retreat back to childhood... Life's a bitch
Finding good in bad girls
The rise of tablet computers
They do seem to be taking over.
Something Wonderful: "Jersey Shore" Gone Wilde
The Wonders of Reality Discipline
Old Mr. Reality is always the best, but harshest, teacher
What If Everyone Had a California State Pension? - A thought experiment on how much more bankrupt we could be
Deaf Fan Sues U. of Kentucky for Football Game Captioning
I'm more worried about the rights of the blind UK fans
Eat Your Veggies - Why the broccoli argument might backfire in the ObamaCare case
I was wrong about Syria
Shortsighted utilitarianism has ruined the Cal State system
Friday, May 6. 2011
Via VDH:
“Tonight, I can report . . . And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta . . . I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden . . . I met repeatedly with my national security team . . . I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action. . . . Today, at my direction . . . I’ve made clear . . . Over the years, I’ve repeatedly made clear . . . Tonight, I called President Zardari . . . and my team has also spoken. . .These efforts weigh on me every time I, as Commander-in-Chief . . . Finally, let me say to the families . . . I know that it has, at times, frayed. . . .”
If you listen to the Lefty pundits, you'd think he was a battlefield hero now. Right decision for sure, but also a no-brainer if there ever was one. "Let's send some guys to kill Bin Laden, OK?" "Well, let me sleep golf on that for a few days..."
Legal beagles at Volokh discuss legality of assassination.
Carpe: What Can Onions Teach Us About Oil Prices?
Conservatives Should Look to the Founders to See How to Fight for their Ideas
There is no autism epidemic
Love without trust
Einstein proven right, again
I Thought Affirmative Action Was a Good Thing
Matt Miller hopes the O will use his poll bump to "go big"
Harry Reid wants Rubio to be more Hispanic (ie Liberal). Rubio responds
The overwhelming body of scientific evidence supports the safety of myriad chemicals in use today.
Optimism Turns To Fear In Libya's Rebel Stronghold
Surber on Sesame St., etc:
Cut the damned funding off and figure out how to have a society where half the people are uneducated. The Great Society programs have ruined the nation financially and socially.
At Moonbattery: Huffington Post Readers Respond to Osama bin Laden's Demise
Related, Euro media and Archbishop react in predictable manner. A quote from the piece:
“But the disdain for American joy about bin Laden’s death goes deeper than mere snobbery or concerns about local Muslims. It’s not just that Western European intellectuals don’t like the United States—they never have—but their unwillingness to countenance aggressive Western self-defense against Islamist terror is a function of their loss of belief in Western civilization itself. Many on the continent seem to have lost any sense that their countries and way of life as well as their faith is something worth defending. When it comes down to it that, and not the faux sophistication of Euro elites, is the difference between America and Europe these days.
Krauthammer: Evil does not die of natural causes
House GOP Throws Down the Gauntlet on Energy
NPR hires firm to lobby for its taxpayer funding
Good investment ideas: Six Scottish windfarms were paid up to £300,000 to stop producing energy, it has emerged.
Thursday, May 5. 2011
Like you, I always find it particularly irksome when I do acrobatic stunts in my airplane and one of the wings suddenly snaps off. You look out the window and think, "Crap! I lost another wing! This is really getting irksome!"
Well, there isn't much to do at that point except get the dang thing back on the ground and glue on another wing.
No big deal.
All sorts of stories are going around. Here's my conspiracy theory: After ten years of work, last summer the CIA believed that they tracked down bin Laden to an old ISI safe house in a city just north of Islamabad. After collecting all of the data they could, a SEAL team was trained for the killing job. When the government finally gave the OK, they secretly choppered in from Afghanistan in stealth choppers and shot up the place, while nabbing bin Laden's corpse and a pile of computer stuff. Then they left after 40 minutes without a scratch, but after blowing up one downed chopper.
But who could believe a crazy story like that? SEALs could believe it, because it's the sort of thing they do routinely. I think this turned out to be an easy job.
The SEALs had a dog with them. h/t Neptunus. Too bad the dog's identity is secret.
Wednesday, May 4. 2011
It's a big story about the fellow whose name inspired the term "moonbat": Top Green Admits: “We Are Lost!”
One quote from the (Liberal) Venerable Mead:
This is an awesome admission of categorical intellectual, political and
moral failure. For two decades greens have arrogated to themselves the
authority of science and wrapped themselves in the arrogant certainty of
self-righteous contempt for those who oppose them. They have equated
skepticism about their incoherent and contradictory policy proposals
with hatred of science and attacked their critics as the soulless hired
shills of the oil companies, happy to ruin humanity for the sake of some
corporate largesse.
He quotes Monbiot:
“All of us in the environment movement, in other words – whether we
propose accommodation, radical downsizing or collapse – are lost. None
of us yet has a convincing account of how humanity can get out of this
mess. None of our chosen solutions break the atomising, planet-wrecking
project. I hope that by laying out the problem I can encourage us to
address it more logically, to abandon magical thinking and to recognise
the contradictions we confront. But even that could be a tall order.”
So many people refused to drink the Kool Aid. I'd like to see the enviros and greenies get back to the sorts of rational conservation efforts which prosperous societies are the best at doing - and truly do care about. Conservation, minus the Socialism and totalitarian aspirations.
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