Oh, Yoshi, Yoshi, Yoshi. For those of you who don’t know him yet, Adam Yoshida’s blog is like the distillation of every jingoist American warblog ever - and all the better by him being a Canadian. Yoshida’s also been a prolific Usenet poster, and I encountered him first time in the soc.history.what-if group, which he participated in and which I lurked, and still lurk, in. Yoshida’s always been a few hundred steps to the right to Attila the Hun, but his latest screed might surpass every wacky proposal he’s ever had, including destroying the Chinese economy, harassing every anti-war liberal in the States, and immediately nuking North Korea.
It, quite simply, is a [http://www.adamyoshida.com/2004_01_01_archive.html#107552370226281339]defense](http://apolyton.net/go.php?[url) of global warming, on the grounds that while it would wreak terrible havoc on every part of the world, it would be somewhat less destructive to the US than to the enemies of US, which, to Adam, is the rest of the world. With passages like “The Angel of Death passes over the land, smiting the wicked and ungodly Kingdom’s of sin which defy the will of America while leaving the righteous American Republic standing, untouched and mighty” and “And if, in the end, the United States has the need for more water or energy, it could always coerce Canada into providing it and, failing in that, it could simply conquer Canada”, Yoshida once again goes above and beyond the call of duty in proving that from a certain perspective, John Ashcroft is a flaming Red.
Now, one could say that Yoshida’s just a harmless ranter on a corner of the vast Internet (and let us fervently hope he stays that way), but from my perspective he happens to be a particularily amusing - and somewhat disconcerning - one.