Homage to Icarus

Remember that line from An Inconvenient Truth, shortly after the ani­ma­tion of Lower Manhattan under­wa­ter, about how there are more things than just ter­ror­ism to be con­cerned about?
Turns out that’s even more pre­scient (via) than he was likely aware at the time.

“I hope the best and the bright­est who will be join­ing the new pres­i­dent will at least enter­tain the pos­si­bil­ity that a lot of what they think they know is wrong,” [Serial Errorist William] Kristol added. Theresa Cook and Kate Barrett, An Economic Transition, A Political Dance, ABC News
My ques­tion: why is any­one pre­tend­ing Bill Kristol […]

Today the Bush admin­is­tra­tion and the Treasury depart­ment are try­ing to rush the Congress into the steeply priced finan­cial sec­tor bailout. This plan calls for the U.S. trea­sury to pur­chase all the bad debt sur­round­ing the sub-prime deriv­a­tives crater, with a cur­rent price-tag $700,000,000,000. I for one, would not be sur­prised if that fig­ure was […]