Rocket Highway

I know we think that EVERYBODY who is ugly and boring who played a high school teacher in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is probably a Secret Genius based on American movies. However, in the case of Ben Stein, idiot creationist conservative extroardinaire, you’d be wrong.

His column from yesterday is about Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the shady French chair of the also shady International Monetary Fund who is accused of raping a hotel maid. It’s basically an apologia and a bunch of bleating about being skeptical of the charges(YOU KNOW THEM DAGGUM WOMEN CAN JUST SAY THEY WAS RAPED AND RUIN A MAN’S LIFE. US MEN GOT IT SO HARRRRD. WAAAHHHH) and ‘innocent until proven guilty.’ Whatever. But his second point is…well, I’ll just let it speak for itself.

2.) In life, events tend to follow patterns. People who commit crimes tend to be criminals, for example. Can anyone tell me any economists who have been convicted of violent sex crimes? Can anyone tell me of any heads of nonprofit international economic entities who have ever been charged and convicted of violent sexual crimes? Is it likely that just by chance this hotel maid found the only one in this category? Maybe Mr. Strauss-Kahn is guilty but if so, he is one of a kind, and criminals are not usually one of a kind.

Right. People who commit crimes tend to be criminals. Therefore, white collar crime doesn’t exist? I guess kings never did anything wrong because they weren’t made to answer for things? I guess torture isn’t illegal because noone will ever answer for it? Ben Stein: pretend economist, proud defender of the rich and rapeloving.