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The Last Laugh -- January

January came in like a lion and went out like a lion, leaving behind in its wake a pile of snow and bone chilling winds that would make even the most fervent acolyte of global warming curse Al Gore, the high priest of the cult. GW cultists these days insist on calling their peculiar faith “climate change,” which is probably what Mr. Mark Twain had in mind when he said, “If you don’t like the weather in New England, just wait a minute; it’ll change,” or words to that effect. A neighbor across the lake, Tony Procrastinate (not his real name) who has just given up the last of the New Year’s resolutions he made at the beginning of the month, insists that Winter dumped three feet of snow on his property, and it is pointless to try to convince him that his snow footage is an accumulative figure, the present couple of feet having been added to the unshoveled couple of feet left over from the last storm. Mr. Procrastinate neglected to clean up his property last time because… well, he had turn...

Mr. Blumenthal’s Wind

Two or three days before Attorney General Richard Blumenthal resigned his post and assumed his new responsibilities as a U. S. Senator, he let fly one of his last media releases, possibly a souvenir of his 20 year tenure. Even on his way out the door, Mr. Blumenthal could not resist tilting at one more windmill. In a media release sent to the usual suspects, the senator-elect announced plans to seek “standards” for wind farms. Acknowledging that new “green energy projects are critical,” Mr. Blumenthal pointed out in his last communiqué with Connecticut media as attorney general that the elegant wind turbines, which have offended the aesthetic sensibilities of such pro-greenists as the late Sen. Edward Kennedy and some of the Kennedy brood who summer in Hyannisport, must be correctly sited “to avoid significant damage to the environment or quality of life in the region.” One does not quite know what the senator-elect may have meant when he singled out “quality of life” as one of t...