No Class...

It took exactly no time at all for the chattering classes to make political hay out of the enormous suffering in Asia. Lord William Rees-Mogg, whose prediction of a 1990s global depression should recommend his opinion to us all, wrote in today's London Times that the devastation of tsunamis should have us abandoning our conceit of skyscrapers and (of course) getting serious about global warming. I'm left wondering whether, if this unfathomable disaster had occurred thirty years ago, it would have been evidence in support of the drastic steps to prevent the ice age that the likes of Rees-Mogg were predicting back then.

UPDATE 12/28/04: Here's commentary on Powerline about another asshat with this kind of moronic take on this unspeakable tragedy.