And also kind of telling that Marie joined a sect for whom a primary tenant of faith is that the Catholic Church is the Whore of Babylon and that the Pope is the Antichrist.

What?!? They aren’t??!!?? Well, that’s it, then.

I’m never blowing that priest again.

And, of course, these countries are primarily peopled by caucasians. So, one could say that being a caucasian environmentalist is almost a redundancy. If one were a fucking idiot who didn’t understand the whole “correlation is not causation” thing. At all.

And my brother swears by this crap. *sigh*.

Wu

What really sucks is I remember the good old days of Hurricane Charlie and Hurricane Ivan, when a death toll of less than 100 people sparked huge controversy and cries for reform.

1) How can he do that without his head exploding?

2) Hindrocket makes the case for atheism. That he could write that line without being struck by lightning the instant it was posted is proof that there are no gods worth worshiping.

3) Hindrocket has filled the Minimum Daily Requirement of Irony for the entire blogosphere.

Thanks, ricky.

“It isn’t contemptible to be wrong, of course. But it is contemptible to smear an opponent, impugn his motives, and misrepresent his position–all while arguing from a posture of complete ignorance of the relevant scientific and economic facts, to serve a radical political agenda.”

…was so spot on that I just asked him permission to forward it to Mr. Bush and Mr. Rove in Washington.

Here’s what I.H. is up to now!

WASHINGTON (AP) — Internet sites purporting to be charities related to Hurricane Katrina have been popping up faster than the FBI can look at them, and many appear to be fraudulent, the head of the FBI’s cyber division said Thursday.

Or maybe even a horror movie plot….”It crept through the fetid darkness, leaving its trail of hatred and despair through the lives of those it destroyed….where would the Invisible Hand strike next?”

I was involved for a little while with an advice column called “Ask the Invisible Hand”. We’d get letters like “Dear Invisible Hand: I just got laid off from my job because my company outsourced my position to China. What advice do you have for me?” To which we’d offer responses like “Dear Laid Off: Congratulations! As everyone knows, a thriving free market economy necessitates an unemployment rate of somewhere around 5%. By joining the ranks of the unemployed, you are doing your bit to help me maintain the balance of market forces that you all love and know as “freedom”. Thanks for being a patriotic American! Love, the Invisible Hand.”

I have been told before that a bad attitude is not a substitute for a sense of humor. I’m not sure I know what was meant by that.

There have been studies which try to understand how far ahead the market really tries to look in the future and the answer is at most 5 years. It is just idiocy to claim that industry or companies (the ones with the most capital and clout) would see the benefit in very long term planning vs. the quick buck. With investors absolutely keyed on share price, this is basically it. If car companies were in charge of fuel economy standards we would literally have no standards at all, same for power plant emissions. Where is the market force that would drive a power plant to not pollute? Oh, let me guess, some upstart power company would poof into existence and would advertise that they have clean power, but their power costs more, so why would anyone buy it? Oh, wait the invisible hand would cause people in areas most affected by acid rain to choose to pay more for their power and force the big polluting company to compete. Oh shit, that wouldn’t happen, because the even bigger, more invisible hand would cause the evil company’s hack think tank to convince people there wasn’t a problem at all, this the problem would disappear!!!

THANKS INVISIBLE HAND!!