So now I’m wondering

Just what was released into the UK water supply this week.

The folks writing in the dailies have gone from silly to stupid.

First, we have pole-smoker, Andrew O’Hagan in The Telegraph pissing on the still warm corpse of Andrew Solzhenitsyn

And so we say goodbye to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the funniest writer since Oscar Wilde. It’s true that Sandy was never one for the green carnation, the waspish remark or pink gins at the Savoy, but he nevertheless played a crucial role in propagating the humorous capacities of teenagers all over the globe.

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Other people’s misery might be damnable, but it is never as damnable as one’s own; that’s why people like soap operas and why a certain degree of exposure to the sadness of others can prove quite a tonic.

Solzhenitsyn, of course, never got that: every one of his books should have been called Stalinbad, and for him the undoubted terribleness of Uncle Joe was such that no one should ever have felt relaxed enough to call him Uncle Joe. But it was Sandy’s right to be serious, as he was the one who had to eat the cockroaches and suffer under the old Soviet boot.

Link found at Samidata

And then there was this jackhole named John Pilger in al-Guardian going on about how we shouldn’t have used atomic weapons to end World War 2, and about how the fact that we did should be seen as a war crime.

He then attempts to tie it into the civilized world’s attempt to stop Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon, lying by omission along the way, and then shortly there after I lost the plot of his ramblings and am now under the impression he would prefer to see Tehran firebombed.

I don’t know, you try giving the twat a read.

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a criminal act on an epic scale. It was premeditated mass murder that unleashed a weapon of intrinsic criminality. For this reason its apologists have sought refuge in the mythology of the ultimate “good war”, whose “ethical bath”, as Richard Drayton called it, has allowed the west not only to expiate its bloody imperial past but to promote 60 years of rapacious war, always beneath the shadow of The Bomb.

I know. Could you feel your IQ dropping as you read that too?

Link found at Counting Cats

Well, whatever it is that they ingested to make themselves that dim got splashed into the water cooler at the WaPo, where Michael Ruse gives way too much respect to someone who would rather see you dead than alive.

Canadians joke that, given their vile winters, they are the only people in the world who welcome global warming. But some things are too serious for humor. The world is in a crisis because of rising temperatures. Climate patterns have been disrupted, with devastating effects on lands near and far. Regions that once produced food in abundance are now arid deserts. Australians, for instance, are starting to realize that their steady succession of droughts may not be a statistical blip but something more serious and permanent. The polar regions north and south are melting and breaking up, leading not just to short-term effects for animals but also to fears of rising ocean levels and the consequent flooding of today’s dry land. Miami could find itself the Venice of the future, a city surrounded by waters.

No one has more authority to write on these matters than the husband-and-wife team of Stanford biologists Paul and Anne Ehrlich. For decades now they have been documenting and warning of humans’ effects on the environment.

Don’t worry if you don’t recognize the names, though they’ve been featured on these pages before.

The Ehrlichs are certifiable nut jobs who preach population control to the people who make decisions about our lives.

I, for one, would encourage the Ehrlichs to depopulate the world by an extra two people, starting with themselves. Immediately.

Link found at Tim Blair.