Overheard on the Dennis Miller Show* yesterday:

Brian, a caller, gave Dennis (and his sidekick, Salman) giggle fits by referring to Global Warming adherents as "Warmons" and their faith as "Warmonism."

Any spelling errors are mine, as I only heard the comments.

Dennis promised to credit the caller and use the gag on his stint on the O'Reilly show next week. How cool would that be for Brian?



I should probably remind my loyal fan that I am not a person who thinks that Global Weather Change isn't happening. I do think it's happening. I think the jury is still out on which way the Weather is changing, and in which locales, but I have faith in humans and their adaptive capacities. Right now, I say — as I have said for decades, before the current hysteria and Popeil-like huckstering — turn off the lights when you're not using them, don't waste water or electricity.

But I'm not doing that to Save the Planet. I'm just doing it because it is sensible not to waste one's resources. But I believe in using resources — that's what the word implies.

Keep an eye on the Sun — the major source of Climate Change in these parts. And be clever — if we are undergoing some long-term change, be clever. Adapt. But panicking, and giving away large chunks of Personal Initiative and Freedoms to an unelected bureacracy (which is what the UN is) sounds, to these ears, like the opposite of being clever and taking initiative.

We will only end up in a position where we have much, much less initiative and freedom to explore and adapt.




* Dennis, is a native Pittsburghian, and too quirky for some, but I like his "out in left field" sideways references, even the ones I have to look up. Plus his show is not strictly political, and will tangent off into Things Hollywood (Sal is a screenwriter) or Things Sports at a moment's notice.