"Plague Ship": Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Charles P. Pierce [View all]
As long as there have been human beings, there has been epidemic disease. As long as there has been epidemic disease, there has been panic. As long as there has been panic, there have been heroes who stand in the middle of it, heedless of the blind terror, and beat it back through the sheer force of their humanity.
And as long as there have been human beings, there have been human beings with power over other human beings. As long as there have been human beings with power over other human beings, there have been governments. And as long as there has been epidemic disease, and as long as there has been panic, there have been human beings who have the right combination of rancid ambition and foul cowardice who come into the government and seek advantage from the panic and, therefore, from the epidemic disease itself. There have always been human beings who are heroes in the face of epidemic disease. And there have always been slaves to their own worst instincts.
Kaci Hickox, meet Chris Christie.
Kaci Hickox, meet the inexcusable Andrew Cuomo.
Kaci Hickox, meet the know-nothing poltroons of the American conservative movement.
Kaci Hickox, meet the bland, desperate inmates of the mainstream media.
The Red State gang and the rest of them can't help themselves. It's like asking camels not to spit.
CNN can't help itself because it already has fired up the logo and the doomy music. Sorry, Malaysian Airlines 370. You're on your own now, wherever you are.
The epic rest: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Big_Chicken_And_The_Hero_He_Captured
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