“We’re told cars are dangerous. It’s safer to drive through South Central Los Angeles than to walk there. We’re told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We’re told cars should be replaced with mass transportation. But it’s hard to reach the drive-through window at McDonald’s from a speeding train. And we’re told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?” — P.J. O’Rourke

It is amazing how well we live today. It is more amazing how much some people resent that. What is even more amazing is that most of these people do not resent that they are living well – they seem to resent that others live well. The Al Gores and James Hansens of this world live large while wanting everyone else to live a peasant existence. To quote Glenn Reynolds: “I’ll believe it is a crisis when they behave like it is a crisis.” Until then, sod off swampy!