And speaking of mixing metaphors
Well, I was. Shut up.
Anyway, mr Alger refers sagely to the actions of the stupid, and while I wholeheartedly agree with his assertions I also beleive stupidity and malice are kissing cousins; let me mix this with one of Clarke’s Laws:
“Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is virtually indistinguishable from Malice”

Sounds like Og has the Goracle pegged.
[…] From Neanderpundit, after Arthur C. Clarke’s famous aphorism*, “Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is virtually indistinguishable from Malice†[…]