Irony, redefined
Los Angeles school named after Algore and Rachel 'DDT' Carson is built on toxic soil:
A new school will be opening in Los Angeles next Monday that is named after Nobel Laureate Al Gore and Rachel Carson, the woman almost single-handedly responsible for DDT being banned in the '70s.
Even more delicious than the names associated with the new $75.5-million Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Sciences is that it was built on land thought to be highly-contaminated with various chemicals which could pose a threat to students.
Rachel Carson bears a lot of responsibility for the deaths of millions from mosquito-borne diseases that would have been prevented had not DDT been banned because of her advocacy. The liberal's bane: unintended consequences.
Well, I guess it's safe to say real science WON'T be a priority at that school?
High school for the performing arts will be more like it.
I love that it is on polluted ground. Priceless.
Just as it was priceless that the car that had all of those wonderful right wing stickers on it was a Prius. In their faces, boys, in their faces. That's the way I like it.
[...] September 7, 2010 by datechguy in oddities Tags: irony 0 …to make me drop down laughing on the floor. Even more delicious than the names associated with the new $75.5-million Carson-Gore Academy of [...]
".. banned because of her advocacy..." like a lot of other greenies, the woman didn't have a life -- so she screwed everyone else's.
Carson, Algore --- little idiots in search of significance.
*sigh*