It’s normal for people to think of disease as being a product of human agency. Perhaps the chaos of nature is even more terrifying than the consequences of immorality or hatred. I don’t know whether people are just dim (which is forgivable) or whether the driving need to generate large audiences is the cause, but conservative commentators are driving home the meme that Swine Flu is a biological weapon being delivered by illegal Mexican immigrants. No kidding. This is baffling. The only plausible explanation, in my mind, is that the conservative “movement” has been so thoroughly pulverized by its own criminal cruelty and inanity over the last decade that the only remaining public voices are the gibbering crazies; crazies we’ve all grown accustomed to, sure, but now their voices seem to echo off the walls a little more plangently... as if the austere artwork of Gen. Washington praying at Valley Forge has been removed, along with the Persian carpeting and mahogany credenzas. My guess is that the faux “adults” that conservatives have long imagined themselves to be have all left the building and the wingnuts are the only people still around. And someone's got to slather aftershave on Fred Thompson’s jowls.
BTW, here’s to your health:
Summer’s coming so I’ll warn you now; try not to get seriously injured or ill in August. August is the month the medical students are released into the hospital as fully-fledged doctors. And to make matters worse, their first job is often on the crash team. In other words, they are your last bastions of hope, your final hand-hold on this mortal coil if you have the misfortune of going into cardiac arrest. If I were you I would just stay dead. I would want to be resuscitated about as much as I would want someone to mutilate my dead body.
ADDENDUM: And now this...
The outbreak of swine flu
should be renamed "Mexican" influenza in deference to Muslim and
Jewish sensitivities over pork, said an Israeli health official Monday.
Deputy Health Minister
Yakov Litzman said the reference to pigs is offensive to both religions and
"we should call this Mexican flu and not swine flu," he told a news conference at a hospital in central Israel.
UPDATE: Conservative media clobber the GOP.
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