Must-Read of the Wednesday
Posted by TFG on November 9th, 2005
The J. Patrick Buchanan Memorial Library for Failed Prophets of Doom
Imagine if you will, a library that is stocked with books that relate to one thing, the Cassandra like predictions from the past that have failed to come true. A Library entirely dedicated to the published works of blowhards, pundits, college professors, and economists everywhere who like the sound of their voice and are certain that they have seen the end times just around the corner. But for some reason never seem to be able to predict the disaster we all know is waiting for us out in the murky future. The Library should serve as a warning to all who wish to see the future darker than it really is.
November 9th, 2005 at 1:54 pm
And don’t miss the Rifkin wing which houses all seventeen volumes of Jeremy Rifkin’s imminent doom published over the last three decades; the Global Warming hall co-sponsored in part by Greenpeace, NPR, and the DNC; the multimedia Accelerating Global Environmental Disaster presentation, featuring a diorama of Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”; the guilt-inducing hackneyed counters on the ever-growing population and ever-decreasing acres of rain forest found in almost every pseudo-museum across the country, and the piece de resistance — the special altar established for Al Gore’s “Earth in the Balance,” where for a donation of only $500 you can have a brick with your name on it instered into the floor design that spells “Kyoto.”
Surely, Congress can find $223,000,000 in initial funding to get this very important enterprise off the ground, although it might have to be called the Robert C. Byrd Library of Hopeless Pessimism to get the funding appropriated. I do have to admit that I’m torn as to whether the Robert C. Byrd Library of Hopeless Pessimism should be located in West Virginia or on Gravina Island at the end of the Bridge to Nowhere. Then again, watching Ted Stevens threaten to resign if it isn’t in Alaska would make it all worthwhile.