It might be interesting for a while to have a “jackass of the week” feature, but there are only 52 weeks in the year, and many, many more jackasses than that. But just for starters, let’s include the entire Directorate of National Intelligence: jackasses.
Simply because you say something, does not make it so. But enough people might believe it to be so, that for all intents and purposes it is.
Last night during the post-election analysis on CNN, David Frum, whom Jerry Pournelle calls “the egregious Frum” for his erroneous ways, remarked,
You know, the Democrats claim not to be the party of the rich, but they’re raking in the bucks.
The troubling fact is that taking a lot of exercise and then eating a bit more food is not good for the global atmosphere. Eating less and driving to save energy would be better.
Or so says Chris Goodall, Green Party parliamentary candidate for Oxford West & Abingdon, as quoted in The (London) Times [via Eugene Volokh (via David Sucher) and John Massengale].
The troubling fact is that living is not good for the global atmosphere. Dying would be better.
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