Tuesday, February 23, 2010

The Price of Ignorance

People ask what the price of ignorance is, well, this is it.

Keep believing in flowers and puppies and unicorns. What's the worst that can possibly happen?

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

BUT THE BEST THAT CAN HAPPEN IS THAT WE ACTUALLY GET PUPPIES, UNICORNS, AND WORLD PEACE.

CBMTTek said...

Holy F-ing Crap.

1. that guy was an idiot
2. his wife was a bigger idiot
3. hope/change/rainbows/etc... Don't you believe it!

And, the US population is rapidly marching down a similar path.

Mark Adams said...

"High-resolution satellite images of Camp 15 and several other political prisons have been widely circulated in the past year on Google Earth, arousing increased concern about human rights abuses inside the North Korean gulag"

Well, thank God for Google, then! If not for this, I would have assumed DPRK prison camps were as jolly and benevolent as Stalag 13!

The Krowbar said...

A man who chose to believe a lie as big as a Communist utopia despite everything to the contrary, then puts his family in harm's way sold his soul long ago.

You don't make a deal with the devil, plain and simple. Cap'n--I'll lay odds that his grandfather probably skipped the wars and smoked weed instead.

Brian, follower of Deornoth said...

Off Topic, but for your next beta-of-the-year contest, I nominate...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/2865991/Juliennes-life-practising-polyamory-and-has-two-boyfriends.html

Liberista said...

where can i buy a few pounds of world peace?

Bike Bubba said...

Bash, you can make them for cheap. Buy three cans of peas, put in the Osterizer......

I vividly remember liberals in the 1980s arguing that the Soviets weren't that bad.....not even Solzhenitsyn or Valladares could dissuade them.