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A Note About Climate Change, Politics, Exhaustion

People ask me. "Dan," they ask, "why aren't you posting so much about climate change, now that so much information's coming out?"

The reason that I'm not posting on climate change is because the information's finally coming out. I've been posting on the subject and commenting on the subject from way back in the Scott Burgess days, before he disappeared and then finally re-emerged with a Mittel-Europa lifestyle blog (which you should check out anyway). So, I'm keeping track of developments (and cackling), but I think it's time to invest my efforts in other directions.

Jimmie Bise said something on Twitter recently, to the effect that he was thinking of moving away from politics on his blog. It does sometimes get overwhelming, and you may recall that I said to the proggs at the time of the election, congratulations . . . you've politicized us. And goodness knows, they've put enough of us out of business that we have the kind of time that only retirees, college and graduate students and folks on the dole used to have.

So, what are they offering us now, by way of selections for a 2012 presidential candidate? Romney (whose Massachusetts health care will have failed fully by then, but who deserves thanks for his advocacy of Scott Brown), Huckabee (most recently seen mealy-mouthing a backfired policy of setting prisoners free), Gingrich (who's way beyond expiration), and Palin (who's probably more effective gone rogue). For the moment, then, just for the sake of argument, let me state that even though he and I differ in a couple respects, I'm going to say Paul Ryan. Congressman King has been effective. There are others. But there's not a chance in hell that anyone's going to want to send a one-term Senator to the White House next time around, so Scott Brown's out.

Dan Collins

Dan Collins is a dude who blogs. He used to blog elsewhere. Now he blogs here.

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