So I take it he doesn’t own a car, and especially not an SUV, eh?

Since Judson seems to feel that fighting a war is the be-all and end-all of serving humanity, permit me to also put forth the wizard of Bletchley Park: Alan Turing.

His work in cryptanalysis at Bletchley during WW2, and especially his “bombe” machine– created to aid in deciphering the supposedly unbreakable “Enigma” coded messages used by the German forces– is legendary, and decisive in the defeat of those naughty little Nazis.

Moreover, Turing is generally regarded to be one of the fathers of the modern computer, a wonderful machine which enables jackasses like Judson with more bandwidth than brains to compose and distribute tiresome screeds to the world about, among other things, the destructive nature and supposed moral crime of homosexuality.

Which of course, is what makes Turing doubly relevant to Judson’s deeply abiding stupidity, because Alan Turing was, of course, gay as a tree fulla parrots, and had the misfortune to be such at a time when homosexuality was illegal in Britain.

Turing was arrested and charged as such in 1952, but agreed, in lieu of a jail sentence, to accept a series of experimental hormone injections, designed to “cure” him.

Turing grew depressed. Turing also grew breasts. He took his own life shortly thereafter.

On behalf of poor Alan Turing, then, who was too polite in life to ever say something like this(thankfully I’m not!):

Hey, Judson, ya little shit: Fuck you.

Yeah, like that big stupid phony, Albert Einstein.

Taking Judson at his word, I guess he also doesn’t think too much of rightwing academics like Henry Kissinger, Robert Bork, Leo Strauss, Milton Friedman and Theodore von Hayek?

Surely the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge, elected in 1669, must have surpassed the contribution to humanity of at least one dishonorably discharged US Army private. “Nature and nature’s law lay hid in night; God said let Newton be! and all was light.” Let’s see; calculus, universal law of gravitation, optics and thermodynamics.

When exactly, do you suppose, we can expect the occurrences of Mr. Cox’s enlistment as a soldier and his own upcoming surpassing contribution to humanity?

I don’t know whatever motivated young Judson to study at such a bastion of pinko-hood as Lees-McRae College in North Carolina. No wonder he became disgusted at such an ultra-left institution.

However, if he doesn’t follow up his discovery with enlistment, then the terrorists have won.

One can heap various accolades on soldiers, but “contribution to humanity” is risky. Typically, soldiers do not fight for humanity but for their country (assuming that they do fight at all), a subtle but an important distiction. Things important to us (assuming that they are important) do not have to be important to the humanity as the whole.

Consider contribution to humanity of our Marines who lately rather forcibly escorted out of Haiti a democratically elected president to allow a weakly contested reign of death squads to take over. Aristides was not a saint, but replacing him with genocidaires was a dubious contribution to humanity. Perhaps it represented interests of USA, indeed few Americans complained.

By the way, what is the conclusion of Wilson’s story? Did the soldiers that he sent to Europe contribute to humanity or not? If they did, then so did he, and vice versa, isn’t it?

How about Banting and Best. They saved my life.

And adding to your list of academics who’ve changed the world- correct me if I’m wrong, but the Manhattan Project was executed and peopled primarily by academics. The building of the bomb was kind of important, I think.

Wow. Some people just don’t value education.

Yeah? Well, Judson’s soldier has a personalized bullet for every one of them! Let’s see them smarty-pants perfessers win a debate with a machine gun! Bwahahaha!