In point of fact, no insurance covers acts of idiocy.

And then I thought about how, much as travel insurance doesn't cover acts of God, probably my health insurance did not cover acts of idiocy.

When protests erupted, the government, in a fit of blind idiocy, set the police upon peaceful protesters, men and women, with long batons, water cannon, and tear gas. This heavy handedness of course resolved nothing.

The whole point of acts of idiocy is that they leave you totally uninsured they leave you exposed to the world and exposed to your own vulnerability and fallibility in face of, frankly, a fairly indifferent universe.

But our chances of ensuring a more sustainable world would be higher if we had not allowed ourselves to be blinded for the past decade by the combination of the public relations stunt known as the Kyoto Treaty and the idiocy as usual known as the Bush administration.