You're A Jackass. Period.
Charles Krauthammer, noted for being a failed psychiatrist and a resident cadaver/panelist at Fox News, has excreted yet another column. This time, he exhorts the American people for making "...it impossible for any politician to make any responsible energy policy over the last 30 years". How, exactly, have we sabotaged the ever-so-pure intentions of politicians? He doesn't say. He does, however, contend that this selfsame fault of ours "augmented, aided and abetted" the suffering of those whose lives were mangled by hurricane Katrina. An undiscerning reader might be tempted to dismiss this bizarre conflation of causal relationships as the overheated byproduct of a man who's brain has been leased out for an indeterminate period for the sole purpose of operating as a wholesale shit factory; but they would be wrong. It has always been The Krauthammer Way to make haughty pronouncements relating directly to "that-about-which-Krauthammer-knows-fuck-all", for example:
There is no relationship between global warming and the frequency and intensity of Atlantic hurricanes. Period.
Why, that's an interesting – and forceful – position. Does he back it up with any germane data? Nope. I suppose we're supposed to accept it simply because he wrote it: a reasonable expectation had he previously participated in and published any relevant studies on the subject. But he hasn't. (C'mon Chas. Even George Will published a book. Yeah, it was on baseball, but at least is was a freakin' book.) Mike Tidwell, however, has published a few books in his time – and he takes a rather different view on the subject of global warming (see Katrina No More). But Krauthammer isn't interested in facts. And that's the point. A few days ago, the New York Times published an interesting article (Political Science) on the gut-rape of Science by political hacks and bullshit artists. Now there's another, better, article on the relationship between facts (as understood by scientists) and media [Undoing Darwin by Chris Mooney and Matthew C. Nisbet (Columbia Journalism Review)]. Check it out.
Krauthammer, meanwhile, is free to piss-gargle my nutsack.
ADDITIONALLY: Fresh News About Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
4 Comments:
Speaking with the compassion, wide-ranging intellect, broad learning, restless curiosity, deep moral wisdom, and genuinely warm humor of a dead judge, let me first compliment you on excreting a post which is itself something we haven't seen very much of lately: a very successful, full-scale, emergency evacuation. Ha! But seriously, let's stop the finger pointing and blame-gaming and take a moment to set the record straight. First: Of course there is no relationship between "global warming" and hurricanes. "Global warming" is a fiction. There's no such thing. You don't have to be a scientist to know that. Do you need to be a Lagomorphologist to know that there's no Easter Bunny? Please, sir, be serious. Second: Yes, voters have indeed made it impossible for any politician to make any responsible energy policy over the last 30 years. But that's another article for another time. Third: You are implying that conservatives are anti-science. This is one of your favorite arguments, and one that you like to repeat again and again and again. No position, sir, can be true after so much repeating. Furthermore, there are some truths that are truer than science. And some facts—like deeply held beliefs, for example—that are more important than science. Many scientists themselves know this instinctively and readily admit that there is much they do not know. It's common sense, which, again, is also a deeper and truer kind of truth than science. Science is the science of proving things by employing the scientific method of investigation - I mean, talk about the fox guarding the henhouse! It is not the business of science to say things that appeal to your emotions or make you feel important. Thus, there are some very strong beliefs that people have that cannot be proven and are therefore certainly true. What a small, sad world you must live in. Fourth: This is the United States of America, my friend. The United States of America. Fifth: Like many people who think like you, you and other like-minded people seem to want the government to do everything for you. The government shouldn't do anything for you. Nothing. Not a single thing. I went my entire life without taking a single dime of taxpayer money and you would do well to follow my example of self-sufficiency. I did it on my own. And lastly: the bible clearly states that man must establish his domain over nature. You can see in New Orleans today the consequences of ignoring that holy mandate. Thanks to you environmentalists, there is now a toxic sludge all over the place. And this is why I intend to use my new position as heroic statesman to speak from beyond the grave on the importance of maintaining the separation of science and state. There. I think I that should pretty much shut you up.
first, glad to hear from Mr. Rehnquist. I would have expected a Jacob Marley kind of warning about changing your ways...but he's still kickin' it! Perhaps he's still in limbo. I can't remember how that works now. Second, I was equally incredulous at the Krauthammer (sounds like a frat nickname at this late hour and point of inebriation) article. The countdown of blame (starting with Nagin and Blanco) read like a desperate attempt to stick to the RNC talking points memo that he must have received the day before. Clinging to the available flotsam (jetsam? what the fuck is jetsam?) in his own toxic flood of rhetorical shit. Fuck. I shouldn't drink so much. Pathetic.
OK. I just saw Charles' picture on your link, never saw it before. I take it all back, he's hot. Like the sexiest pasty iguana-man I've ever seen. And I've seen quite a few here in DC
you bunch of leaners...
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