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Irregular commentary on whatever's on my mind -- politics, sports, current events, and life in general. After twenty years of writing business and community newsletters, fifteen years of fantasy baseball newsletters, and two years of email "columns", this is, I suppose, the inevitable result: the awful conceit that someone might actually care to read what I have to say. Posts may be added often, rarely, or never again. As always, my mood and motivation are unpredictable.

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Sunday, July 12, 2015

Jeb!'s "Person In A Garage" Magical-Thinking Environmental Solution


Good news, everyone!  Jeb! Bush has acknowledged that climate change actually exists, claims he has no idea what causes it, but he knows, in his divine and borderline mystical way, how it will be fixed.  It's classic Republican magical-thinking.  Oh, do tell!  Please share with us, Jeb!, what exactly will save our troubled planet:

"Right?  Maybe?"
"There will be a person in a garage somewhere that's going to come up with a disruptive technology that's going to solve these problems, and I think the markets need to be respected in this regard."

Well, that certainly is good news, isn't it?  No worries.  Just wait around until the garage person pulls the disruptive tech rabbit out of his hat.  But ya gotta make sure the markets are ready to enrich the garage person, because we sure wouldn't want to do anything environmentally sensible unless someone can make a shit-pot of money.

Until then.    

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/jeb-bush-thinks-climate-change-will-be-fixed-by-a-person-in-a-garage-somewhere-7739675

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