Oh... so close, Orson, Still worth a read, though

I almost felt bad for ripping on Ender after reading Orson Scott Card's brutal expose of the Hockey Stick Hoax.

That is, until he took a cheap shot at the car. That dog won't hunt, Monsignor!

It's fascinating how he hits and misses in almost the exact same pattern as his fiction.

Nevertheless, his exposure of environmentalist fraud is top notch and very much worth your time!

Still, after that: leave. The man is powerfully wrong about the car. He's a filthy communitarian New Urbanist and swallowed a large dose of their Marxist kool-aid.

-Inspector

Great article. How can an Al Gore read a piece like this and continue his crusade? Either he doesn't read it or -- could it be? Al? -- he is dishonest.

I think both Gore and Clinton fall into this dishonesty easily because they are social metaphysicians. What other people can be persuaded or intimidated into saying, that is their standard of truth. And they know that the media will go along with their story. This is why they have emphasized consensus.

Unfortunately, just as momentum toward real, rational science is starting to build, the moron in the White House has caved to the global warming crowd. Bush is destroying his presidency, in my opinion.

And what else I wonder. Who deserves the blame is the culture that would enable the selection of such unqualified individuals for such positions of authority.

As the culture decays and slips further into decline, I can only imagine what will be wrought in the years to come.

The anticipation is killing me, I can hardly contain my excitement.

Probably the same way he wrote that latest book of his with a straight face. I don't think there's a single thing that he accuses that he isn't guilty of, himself.

It's almost as if it events were calculated to inflict the maximum amount of ironic horror upon us.

Good point. Reminds me of a conversation with Gus I had a bit back. They have such vast and horrible power and can't even be bothered to know what the hell they're doing with it.

Children. We are at the mercy of giant, overgrown ogres that have the minds of children. It reminds me of this massive and mildly retarded guy from my high school who would sit in the cafeteria and grab people by one arm and then punch them repeatedly in the other. For reasons nobody quite understood. And he could hit you in exactly the same place over and over.

Case in point, Alexander Hamilton said this:

Can you imagine anyone in political discourse today sounding as articulate and clear as this?

Children indeed. This is the point that intellectuals had to reach to found this country. Can you imagine to what levels they must soar in order to save it?

I think the task futile. I dearly hope that some will prove me wrong.

I also thought I should add that I am often accused of "living in the past." My counter is usually, that I instead live through it.

By this I mean that life is possible and bearable to me because I know of what greatness men once achieved, and it is because of this that I know of what is possible for them to achieve again. If I thought for a minute otherwise, life would become impossible for me.

My work brings me often into the older buildings of the city where in places that have yet to be "renovated" I can see recorded almost like hieroglyphs the architectural flourishes of ages past.

Carved into the stone and metal are rich reminders of how men once viewed themselves and their place in the universe. A concept so foreign to people today that the guides who give tours of these places are unable to articulate what it is they are looking at and usually resort to a bland perceptual explanation of what they see.

Was this some lost mystical civilization whose memory has faded into the mists of time and legend? No! They were Americans, from less than 100 years ago!

Where to begin?!

Even if it doesn't save us from hitting bottom, it may serve as a time capsule to spark another renaissance. So it's not entirely futile, either way.

Man, you and Dismuke really ought to get a chat going. He's written volumes about that subject.

Who is this Dismuke?

Dismuke.