Never read that paper before - and I'm certainly not laughing at the story - , but it's amusing to see a free-marketeer call socialists 'vile'. You guys drown any moral compass you have in intellectual rubbish that essentially amounts to social Darwinism. In your dream world, the poor would have no safety net, their children no chance of a good education, and the elderly would freeze, starve, keel over and die in their homes. And yet you pretend to have great sympathy for an unfortunate child killed by a polar bear. Laughable.