A few weeks back, I noted that Donald Trump’s rejection of the Paris accords on global warming amounted to a “tub”, a high-visibility, low-significance virtual non-issue that would nevertheless promote much angst and heartburn among the liberal commentariat, both printwise and in talking-heads land, accompanied, in both media, by endless shots of El Donaldo’s great,…
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Donald and the Paris accords—a tale of a tub
Back in the day, as only old-timey English majors would know, a dude named Jonathan Swift wrote A Tale of a Tub, which Swift, wrapping himself in multiple layers of irony, describes as a sort of prelude to a great work of immense learning that will resolve all the tensions of the age. In the…
Note to Liberals: Five Things That Are Dead
Gun Control: Gun Control does not stop crime, but it does kill the careers of Democratic politicians. When you speak, write, or think, the word “gun” should neither precede nor succeed the word “control” by a period of less than six weeks. Global Warming: Anthropogenic Global Warming is a fact. Here is another fact: the…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here “Call me Ishmael, motherfucker!” “First dibs, my ass! This is my ocean, short stuff!” “I’m holding you personally responsible for global warming, beachboy!” “I just hope you didn’t eat all the cocoanuts.” “Don’t sweat it. The tide comes in real quick in these latitudes.” “If you didn’t keep building these damn things,…
Hey, George F. Will! Stop making sense!
Yes, much as I hate to admit it, George F. (“F as in FREEEEEEEEKY!!!!!”) Will, perhaps my all-time piñata/bête noire, has a point in his latest screed, “Scientific silencers on the left are trying to shut down climate skepticism”, because that’s exactly what’s happening. I’ve previously complained about the utterly meretricious suit brought by a…
Running on empty: The liberalism of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and William de Blasio
President Obama wept while announcing his new executive actions that will supposedly protect Americans from guns, demonstrating that honest emotion is often the poorest of guides to both good politics and good policy, a lesson that today’s liberals are notably loath to learn. There was a time when liberals were smart about gun control. They…
When Geniuses Lie
Is Lowell Wood a genius? Totally. You can read his fascinating story at Bloomberg Business, “How an F Student Became America’s Most Prolific Inventor”, just a wee bit of a bullshit title, since Lowell was not an F student for very long. But that’s okay, because Lowell, even though a very real, and very serious,…
Alan Vanneman 2, MIT 0
A month or two ago, I acknowledged an email from an old Oberlin classmate, Larry Piper, remarking on a number of issues, including a dispute between Larry and myself as to whether anthropogenic global warming is something we can live with. Basically, I say we can, and Larry says we can’t. I noted at the…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Okay, you were right and I was wrong. Global warming is for real. Now will you get off your ass and start swimming?” “I don’t know what to say, Roger. I always thought I’d be the one to give up show business.” “Yeah, and what do we do if the tide isn’t…
Oberlin’s Gridiron Glory
A week or so back I was delighting in George Will’s annual disparagement of the Super Bowl and suggested that perhaps, when young George was at Princeton, he’d been humiliated by some football hearties, leaving him forever embittered, and suggested that if he had only gone to Oberlin, like me, where there are none such,…