Well, we recently had our elections here in Rutherford County, and it's humbling and sad all at the same time ¯ humbling to see the
number of folks who give themselves selfishly to causes they believe in, humbling to see men and women subject themselves to the mauling they get when they run for office, humbling to see
folks waiting to vote in the heat
of this miserable Tennessee summer we're having, but also sad to see how insular and crimped a lot
of us have
become.
As polling
numbers show falling interest in climate issues, the defenders
of the faith have
become more shrill and vicious against dissenters (calculatedly calling global warming skeptics «deniers» to link them to Hitler's Holocaust with Earth as the metaphoric oven - charming
folks.