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Nobody can turn the corporate-sandbag machine genius on quite like the Random Randroid.

I pass on this post at Deltoid about Conservative Think Tank Heritage Heartland Institute massaging climate data to their own devices.

Note Tim Lambert’s image below on the cherry picking of data:

In e-mail I tell RR how sad I think it is. He agrees:

Even the cherry-picking is half-ass – I would have gone the extra mile and said that from Sep ’89 to Mar ’09 – in less than two decades – artic [sic] ice more than doubled. Then I would have said – where’s the global warming, *ssholes? Maybe it’s time to start talking global cooling again.

I then pass on to him an e-mail, with subject “Libertarians are Morons, Example X”, with this link, which contains an argument that taxation in the face of a giant asteroid (BRIT HUME’S HEAD???) is a no go. (thank you, LGM).

That is fascinating stuff. It reminds me of the old joke about what the New York Times headline would be in such a case: “Asteroid to Destroy Earth; Women, Minorities to be Hit Especially Hard”

I support the solution of allowing impact – the asteroid does have the right to travel freely, after all – then calling out the military to shoot the looters on sight.

I’m just kidding – actually, I support no solution. Libertarianism is designed for human socieities [sic] living in the real world, and admittedly does not stand up well to these insane hypothetical situations. The whole discussion shows the thorough triumph of libertarianism. The enemies of freedom have been so thoroughly vanquished in the intellectual sphere that they are reduced to objecting to the philosophy based on Big Asteroid. “oooh, the libertarians don’t have a Plan for when the sky turns green. Don’t vote for them!”

You might consider this a Poe moment. He’s that good.