Lynne Kiesling
… goes to Tunku Varadarajan, in his Daily Beast column today about terrorism and air security:
Of course, it may be that the one way to ensure a grassroots Democrats clamor for action against terrorism is to call it “anthropogenic”…
Hah, climate policy humor!
Very funny. Thanks for sharing.
When I was a kid, they told me the Russians were going to kill us all.
Then the Japanese were going to take over the world.
Then the Chinese were going to take over the world.
Now the Arabs are going to kill us all.
And you know what? I’m just not buying it anymore.
A few third world dinks with underwear bombs are just not a ‘threat’.
…unless you happen to be on the plane with them, or on the ground below them.
And the odds of that are?
The crazy homeless guy living in the bushes 100 yards from my house is more of a threat than any terrorist will ever be.
Fireman have become firefighters
Chairman have become Charpersons or Chairs (although I thought that woerd was taken already
Only one proper generic use of Man among correct thinkers:
Terrorism has become man-caused disasters…