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Monday, December 20, 2010

The real terrorists

Posted on 5:59 AM by Unknown
I just finished reading "The Doomsday Strain" by Michael Specter in the current New Yorker.

OMG!

I'm not a praying man, but maybe I should reconsider.

This is the scariest sh!t I've read since....since....since.... I don't know when. Nathan Wolfe, the calm debonair hero of this tale, portends dastardly circumstances for humanity. Even when we know, we ignore the science, the facts, the data. And when we, no they, ignore Wolfe, they die. This kinda data gets my attention. Not that spew, that pablum, that comes from the NYC DOE. This is real data, data we can hang our hat on.
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