Fear Itself - Reason Magazine

Satirist H.L. Mencken memorably summarized this democratic dynamic: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” Maybe a one-in-a-million risk is not imaginary, but it's pretty damned close to it.

For Brown, a sad turnaround on environmental matters - The Boston Globe

Voting to strip the EPA of its authority to regulate greenhouse gases is a favor to Big Oil and Big Coal and the states where they are dominant, not to Massachusetts clean-energy firms struggling to compete with companies in Europe and Asia.  [Where's the part about my grandchildren not getting dengue fever?]