Unintelligent design
Linwood Barclay: "How does one explain all the misguided, unwise, sometimes outright boneheaded things the Bush administration has done since taking over nearly five years ago, and continues to do on a pretty much daily basis?" [→ READ ]
Linwood humorously addresses what I, with less good humor, tend to attribute to malevolent spiritual forces loose in the world that are hellbent on destroying it, like sentient carcinogens:
How is it possible for a group of supposedly intelligent, experienced individuals to take this many wrong turns? Wouldn’t you think that once in a while, even by accident, that George W. Bush and his advisers would make a decision that made sense? …
More and more, it seems unlikely that mere human beings could make this many mistakes without some sort of misguiding force, a kind of supernatural entity that has trouble remembering where it put its car keys.
That’s where unintelligent design comes in.
Once one embraces the concept of unintelligent design — a kind of doofus-like cosmic force — it becomes much easier to get your head around the operations of the Bush administration. …
I want to laugh. But laughter doesn’t come easily; I find our present national condition too much like treatable malignant cancer that we’re not treating.
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