Posthuman Blues

STUDY BOLSTERS GREENHOUSE EFFECT THEORY, SOLVES ICE AGE MYSTERY

"Critics who dismiss the importance of greenhouse gases as a cause of climate change lost one piece of ammunition this week. In a new study, scientists found further evidence of the role that greenhouse gases have played in Earth's climate."

But . . . best-selling hack-novelist Michael Crichton says global warming is just a myth perpetuated by left-wing fear-mongers!

A week ago I was on the third floor of Barnes & Noble looking at a nicely stocked display of Crichton's "State of Fear," evidently the "Jurassic Park" author's bid for Tim LaHaye's "Left Behind" readership. And I wondered: "What would happen if I just started dropping copies of this stupid book on people's heads?"

I didn't do it, of course. Still, I really wanted to heft that book-display over the railing and watch it plummet to the first floor, hopefully taking some random New York Times best-seller devotee with it. A "state of fear" indeed.