Tell Me This Is a Joke

From the Corner:

Best Wishes to Captain Ed & His First Mate [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

He's liveblogging his wife's kidney transplant.

Great Minds Think Alike

"Disgusting, Illogical, Stupid," Jonah Goldberg, posting on The Corner:

Those are just some of the words that come to mind from this passage by Ellen Goodman:

I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.

No, Ellen. Let's not just say that.

"Denying The Future," James Taranto, posting on Best of the Web:

The Boston Globe's Ellen Goodman starts off a column about global warming on a loopy note:

On the day that the latest report on global warming was released, I went out and bought a light bulb. OK, an environmentally friendly, compact fluorescent light bulb.

Wow, Ellen, thanks for sharing! But a few paragraphs later she tries to make a serious point and ends up making a serious moral and intellectual error:

I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.

No, Ellen. Let's not "just say" it.