Headline of the Day

We Should, in Fact, Politicize the Tragedy

—Olga Khazan at The Atlantic, discussing the Camp Mystic flood tragedy in Texas.

The subjead is, "Holding people and policies accountable for disasters is essential," really says it all.

When people f%$# up like this, they should be held accountable, whether they are represent Kerr County, whose government refused money to upgrade their warning systems, the state Texas for their slow response, and Kristi Noem for refusing to approve money for FEMA to act until she came back for her weekend.

These are failures who should be held accountable.

As much as it pains me to quote The Atlantic, which has made its brand mindless contrarianism and unintelligible pseudo-intellectual arguments in service of the status quo, I am doing so because it gives me the opportunity to slam the magazine yet again.

You see, if you look at what is shown at the top of the web page, it's not the headline above, it's, "Who's to blame for the Camp Mystic Disaster?"

That means that if you look this up on any of the search engines, you will see it called by the latter, which pretends to be an both sides headline, when in fact the article (which you should read at this link, it makes good points, which will not generate any money for the magazine) is condemning the calls made by self-serving politicians for people to ignore their own misfeasance.

The wanking at The Atlantic continues.