It takes a mighty thump to flatten religion and Marxism, both, with one blow, etc etc, blah blah blah.

As longtime Corner readers know, I'm far more sympathetic to intervening on a case by case basis than I am to the religious/holistic/Marxist cases for throwing a wet-blanket on global capitalism in the name of curbing greenhouse gas emissions. This is not to say reasonable anti-pollution regulations aren't a good idea, etc etc, blah blah blah.

But this guy Jonah Goldberg manages by simply not mentioning what the hell he's talking about, except that it involves wet blankets, etc etc, blah blah blah. Maybe this is just some variant on "in bed together but if it is, well, it sounds a little kinky to me. Etc, etc.

Goldberg is writing to suggest, lest one wonder, that if polar bears are indeed threatened by a lack of floating ice we should build them lifeboats because, hey, we can't do anything else about it anyway, so blah blah blah.

And I don't know exactly what "The Corner" is but if standing in it involves wearing a dunce cap it sounds to me like the perfect place for Jonah Goldberg.