I may be more sad today...

than I was yesterday. Michael Crichton died yesterday.

Obama was expected. This was not.

He is in my triumvirate of political writers. They are in no particular order, Michael Crichton, Mark Steyn and James Lileks.

You may not know his name but you are familiar with his works: Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, Sphere, Disclosure, Congo, Airframe among others. He was also the Executive Producer of "ER".

He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard. He received his MD from Harvard Medical school. He recieved numerous fellowships in Anthropology and he was a visiting writer at MIT. In short, he was brilliant.

I urge you to take the time to read the next two links. The first is what he wrote about the MSM in 1993. He was quite prescient.

The second is much longer. So put the kids to bed, get a Diet Coke or your refreshment of choice and come back and read it. It is a phenomenal dissertation on the science of Global Warming, its relation to public policy and what a farce that relationship is.

RIP, sir.

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