An ugly man with an ugly face

Myron's self-satisfied bollocks appears in Human Idiots Online today.

As they say, Idiots will write what Idiots will read. The front page article in the same issue is by Oliver North, that well-known illegal arms supplier to Iran when they were fighting the American backed dictator of Iraq bringing to us his wise words about Iraqi Democracy. The ends always justify the means. So long as you forget what the means were... As well as the ends. (What the hell were they, anyway?) Just simply bask in the joy of celebrity.

Also nearby is an excellent article by Steven Milloy, who quite handily appears in the CEI list of tossers as an "Adjunct Analyst". (For those who don't know, the definition of Adjunct is an appendage.)

I love that article. It criticized companies like Fidelity Investments for capitulating to the interests of workers who had invested their own money in the form of pension funds into that company when they demanded it stopped supporting Bush's Social Security dismantlement plan. You see, not everyone with money has rights. According to the CEI the fact that these American citizens had handed over their money to the company as customers rather than shareholders meant they had no right to express a view about what was done with the power that went with it. Lesson to large investors: buy shares in the company which manages your investment at the same time as you hand over your money. Otherwise they will sense that their duty will be to screw you rigid.

But back to Myron's main postings from Montreal, whose events mean that he will be guarenteed "several years of full employment, lots of meetings in very nice places, staying in first class hotels". I don't think he has developed his arguments fully yet. I think he should be preaching that no one who breaths and emits carbon dioxide from their lungs into the atmosphere is allowed to criticise any country, corporation, or other person about their CO2 emissions without being called hypocritical. That's how it is in war, don't you know? If either side proposes a truce, they're just being hypocrites.

Maybe that's why America can't end the war in Iraq which it started and only it can stop. It has too much pride. It is too worried about being called a hypocrite by the likes of Myron and his friends. Only when people start to realize that being criticized by Myron Ebell is a sign of credibility, then we will be on the right track.