Indulge in a brief hypothetical with us. Waiting to board a plane, you notice a cluster of men and women engaged in an obviously spirited conversation. Listening in, you discover they are airline mechanics. Almost every one of them believes that the plane you are about to get on is dangerous; that its wings will fall off if it is allowed to take to the air. But the lead mechanic, the one who gets to decide such things, argues there’s no absolute proof that disaster is imminent, and he clears the plane for flight.
What manner of idiot would you have to be to get on that plane?
The editors go on to lambast George Bush, Rick Perry, et al for insisting that global warning is only a theory. And they challenge us to ask every candidate for every office in every state, city, town, and village what they plan to do to address it.
I've talked about subscribing to the Texas Observer for a long time. Today, I'm signing up! A few well-placed copies in view of "reachable" Republicans might just turn the tide in Texas one day.
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