Michael Crichton Has Passed Away. Sigh.

The visionary author, Michael Crichton, who brought us Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain and The Thirteenth Warrior (Eaters of the Dead) and State of Fear and many other great novels has passed away.

That sucks.

Michael Crichton has passed away. Godspeed to you. The world is a little smaller, and a little less, without you.

The entertainment site, Ain’t It Cool News, has a fitting eulogy that will probably be filled with leftwing moonbats attacking his heresy regarding the First Church of Climate Change. I think he would have liked that.

As of this posting, MichaelCrichton.com is unavailable. Probably just overwhelmed with traffic.

In his late years, he was reviled by the left–even though he was very liberal on many issues–because of his skepticism regarding Global Warming. Which, in my opinion, was dead on.

Good stuff on Michael Crichton’s skepticism, and his critics’ reactions, here. And more good stuff about him, and his critics, here.

When the big Michael Crichton websites are back up and working, check out Michael on Environmentalism as Religion. And how Aliens Cause Global Warming.

A video of Michael Crichton explaining his theory of Global warming as religion:

Godspeed to you, our courageous, visionary and skeptical friend.

Are All Liberals Going to Be This Insufferable? Graceless and Hubristic Victors?

The short answer is yes. What am I talking about? 

Well, Ezra Klein, for one. Who I normally like. I disagree with him, but he often seems thoughtful and serious and interesting. Then he comes up with stuff like this. 

Barack Hussein Obama was, arguably, the country’s most unlikely candidate for highest office. He embodied, or at least invoked, much of what America feared. His color recalled our racist past. His name was a reminder of our anxious present. His spiritual mentor displayed a streak of radical Afro-nationalism. He knew domestic terrorists and had lived in predominantly Muslim countries. There was hardly a specter lurking in the American subconscious that he did not call forth.

Excuse me. I have to barf.

 

Cute Baby. Appropriate Sentiment.

No, dude. He’s a flockin’ socialist. He says he’s going to take money from rich people and give it to everybody else, and he’s going to deliver easy solutions to all our problems, and he’s really convincing. And more people liked the idea of the government taking somebody else’s money and giving it to them, this time around. People like hand outs. It’s a fact.

Oh, Jeepers H. Crackers. 

And that was his great strength. He robbed fear of its ability to work through quiet insinuation. He forced America to confront its own subconscious. 

He will make the lame walk, He will make the blind to see! Could it be any more messianic? I fear for my need of anti-nausea medications over the next four years.

Are You A Depressed Right-Wing Nutburger Suffering from Post-Obama Stress Disorder?

Me too. This helps. Just put things in perspective.