I suppose I have begun to refer to people as insults or embarrassments to humanity quite haphazardly recently.  It’s my favourite insult when it comes to scoundrels who I feel nothing but contempt for. I know that if I use it too much though, it would loose its meaning and impact. Yet when it comes to someone like Alex Jones, I think most people would agree that it certainly applies. Here we have a man who assumed he had a right to shout his head off on American radio, about how he thought one of the worst, most sickening school shootings in history was a hoax, staged to strengthen the argument for greater gun control. In doing so, he branded dozens of grieving parents, who were already going through unimaginable suffering, liars without a shred of evidence or justification . If he had a shred of honour, Jones would be on his knees begging those people to forgive him; yet he is now claiming that his freedom of speech has been violated, as though he is some kind of victim, and promising to not pay the money he now owes. Sometimes you have to wonder how we, as a civilisation 200,000 years old, can allow such despicable, contemptible people to rise to such prominence.