I linked to Steven Hayward’s Weekly Standard article below, but you’ve got to read this too.
A prominent global warming scientist has threatened New York Times reporter Andy Revkin because Revkin dared to run a lighthearted piece about the prostitutes in Copenhagen.
Schlesinger emailed Revkin and told Revkin he was about to experience “the ‘Big Cutoff’ from [scientists]” who think they can no longer trust Revkin to just parrot their talking points.
Wow.
As Steven notes, these people really are humorless.
Steve Maley
Neil Stevens
Daniel Horowitz
It really is time to start rounding up "intellectuals" and "scientists"
Achance (Diary) Sunday, December 6th at 10:51PM EST (link)and making them work the harvests for a few years. The communists weren’t wrong about everything.
In Vino Veritas
As in re-education camp?
antisocial (Diary) Monday, December 7th at 5:07AM EST (link)I am all for that. I second the proposal.
Obama Doctrine – Boot On The Throat
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What is to be done?
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No. You can’t – Moe Lane
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The Emperor has no clothes!!!
Ahhh, Achance you are quite
Warrior (Diary) Monday, December 7th at 12:08PM EST (link)witty today, err, yesterday. As they say at TBS, Very Funny!
And I thought Feminists were the most humorless creatures in all of liberaldom. It seems tenured professors on the verge of “getting the money and recognition we deserve” can be quite vicious when mere humans dare ridicule them…
“Racial criteria are irrational, irrelevant, [and] odious to our way of life.” — Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1950 Supreme Court case of McLaurin v. Oklahoma
Humorless is just a consequent
civil truth (Diary) Sunday, December 6th at 10:59PM EST (link)Their basic identity is secular true believer.
Conducting auto-da-fes is another consequent.
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
http://www.gmsplace.com/
I sent him condolences on his fall into poverty and obscurity
jccbin (Diary) Sunday, December 6th at 11:06PM EST (link)schlesin@atmos.uiuc.edu
Bet he's a real gas at cocktail parties.
Daezy Monday, December 7th at 12:33AM EST (link)n/t
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. ~ Ronald Reagan
http://uslibertyjournal.blogspot.com/
Never bite the hand that gives
johnt Monday, December 7th at 10:23AM EST (link)respectability to you, or your crappy, artificial, anti-human, so called cause.
A real no no, threatening the Times??? About as dumb as it gets, but just for a moment a lesson in how dissidents against statist assumptions are never endingly treated by the media.
“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville
ALL tenured leftist academicians
Warrior (Diary) Monday, December 7th at 12:25PM EST (link)should have to work the fields for a while. And then when payday comes around, someone from the Gubmint should show up and literally take half their pay directly out of their hands and hand it over to the “less fortunate!! Then this crowd of over-paid jaspers would really begin to understand the implications of socialism and appreciate the concept of “unfairness” even better than they do now!!!!!!!!!!
“Racial criteria are irrational, irrelevant, [and] odious to our way of life.” — Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1950 Supreme Court case of McLaurin v. Oklahoma