Gee, thanks a lot, you troll. I live in NYC, my apartment had bedbugs, and I am a friend and fellow traveller of Neo’s. And bedbugs are reappearing all over the country, and it would only be poetic justice if they appeared in your bed, in whatever smug conservative enclave you live in.

i’m glad that article appeared in the Times though, because it’s one more bit of evidence I can wave at my landlord if he tries to sue for the rent I am withholding.

You are right. A subsequent study, by Professor Gus (“Guess” to his friends) Nordheimer at Southern Vermont Tech found Ohrenschmalz’s study flawed. Unfortunately, Ohrenschmalz’s widow, after the Doktor’s untimely death in 1993 (are there “timely” deaths?) burnt his papers with the professor. “He spent so much time with those Wanzen (bedbugs), and that was no boost to our inmtimacy,” she said at the cremation.

The study is still referred to in a general way in the literature, but always with a note of caution.

Knowledge definitely is power, and it is a power that is very useful precisely because most people don’t realize who has it, and therefore are unwary of being manipulated.

They know the government has power, but do they know that the media has the same power? Do they know scientists and lawyers and billionares like Soros has the same power?

Perhaps not as widely as people know the government has power.

Which is the point. Know thy enemy and know thy self, but it is ultimately true that people who don’t know their enemies also won’t know themselves either. Which is very useful to some people.

On another point, the rich people in the West’s arrogant presumption that they know what is best for the poor peeps in the world, makes me sick, and it makes a lot of other people worse than sick, it makes them dead. Which is sort of convenient to the rich dudes I would presume. Less people taking up their precious oxygen and resources.

There are 2 ways powerful people treat their inferiors. The way they would like their superiors to treat them, with gifts, duties, jobs, and loyalty. And whatever they can get away with, through exploitation of the poor.

The progressive agenda of “not exploiting” the poor, is just another way of not giving them the tools to defend themself against the exploitations of the billionares that fund the progressives. The only way to not exploit the poor, is to make them rich, and nobody is getting rich in Africa except the dictators funded by European cowardice.

African nations without the technology, nuclear generators, and DDT required to stave off economic and human starvation, will be no threat to the self-appointed aristocracy of planet Earth.

Perhaps that is why they are so scared of Afghanistan and Iraq. It is the beginning of the end for the status quo, the status quo that dictated that third world nations will remain third world nations open for plundering by the U.N.

Indeed, in this brave new world of ours, be afraid, be very afraid of what the downtrodden will do to you once the United States has lifted them from out under your bootheels, my fellow Europeans and human fools in Arabia.

Christopher Hitchins knows that this is the new crusade, the new and true revolution. Few others can look past their fear to see the truth however.

In CA we are overrun by coyotes in urban areas and ants in our yards and houses. Every year some jogger is killed by a mountain lion and several other are maimed. The experts always say, but, we took their habitat, you know. It’s another variation of the “we deserved it” meme re 9/11.