Tuesday, October 14, 2003
Bushmaster Laughs at Space-Time Continuum
Look! Up in the sky! It's a condor! It's a spotted owl! No, it's the Bushmaster!
Apparently all improvements in the environment over the last 30 years are properly credited to Bush's underappreciated environmental policies, according to Gregg Easterbrook. And those Herculean labors entitle the Bushmaster to slack off more or less continually in the present, time travel being so exhausting and all. (Don't talk to the Bushmaster about jet lag!) Who knew?
Meanwhile if the whiners in the environmental movement would just recognize what a friend they have in the Bushmaster, he might do more for them. Instead, they just hurt his feelings. Bad enviros. Bad, bad! If the Bushmaster doesn't feel like helping us any more, it's their fault.
And if enviros can't make up other people's minds to want mileage limits on SUVs, they can't complain if the Bushmaster's friends reluctantly drill on public lands as a result. It's a simple matter of logical consistency.
Interestingly, Easterbrook was making pretty much the same arguments in 1995, yet, curiously without crediting the Bushmaster. See "Rush Limbaugh with Book Learning". Probably figured no one would believe him.
Thank goodness now the truth can be told.
Apparently all improvements in the environment over the last 30 years are properly credited to Bush's underappreciated environmental policies, according to Gregg Easterbrook. And those Herculean labors entitle the Bushmaster to slack off more or less continually in the present, time travel being so exhausting and all. (Don't talk to the Bushmaster about jet lag!) Who knew?
Meanwhile if the whiners in the environmental movement would just recognize what a friend they have in the Bushmaster, he might do more for them. Instead, they just hurt his feelings. Bad enviros. Bad, bad! If the Bushmaster doesn't feel like helping us any more, it's their fault.
And if enviros can't make up other people's minds to want mileage limits on SUVs, they can't complain if the Bushmaster's friends reluctantly drill on public lands as a result. It's a simple matter of logical consistency.
Interestingly, Easterbrook was making pretty much the same arguments in 1995, yet, curiously without crediting the Bushmaster. See "Rush Limbaugh with Book Learning". Probably figured no one would believe him.
Thank goodness now the truth can be told.
