{"id":1575,"date":"2010-06-17T01:07:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T05:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2010-06-17T01:08:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T05:08:44","slug":"1575","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/1575\/","title":{"rendered":"Month 6, Day 17: He&#8217;s Not Useful \u2014 He&#8217;s Just An Idiot."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the mood for a fight with an idiot, and lucky me! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/opinion\/ct-oped-0617-goldberg-20100617,0,1404970.column\"> Jonah Goldberg has an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jonah Goldberg asserts that &#8220;If you remove the argument over climate change from the equation,&#8221; fossil fuels are environmentally friendly and economical.  Indeed.  Let&#8217;s follow his example.  If you remove the argument over lung cancer and emphysema from the equation, cigarettes are <em>healthy<\/em>.  If you remove the argument over lifelong emotional and physical trauma from the equation, child abuse is <em>just another way for adults and kids to bond<\/em>.  If you remove the argument over radioactive fallout, mutations and millions of deaths, nuclear holocaust is<em> just a good fireworks display<\/em>.  With the devastating effects of climate change manifesting globally, and the scientific evidence for anthropomorphic global warming now completely incontrovertible, there are only two reasons for Goldberg to &#8220;leave it out of the equation&#8221; \u2014 foolishness or knavery.  Neither makes a convincing argument.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the mood for a fight with an idiot, and lucky me! Jonah Goldberg has an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune. Jonah Goldberg asserts that &#8220;If you remove the argument over climate change from the equation,&#8221; fossil fuels are environmentally friendly and economical. Indeed. Let&#8217;s follow his example. If you remove the argument [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[207,520,521],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-idiots","tag-jonah-goldberg","tag-lets-play-really-bad-analogies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}