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. H. L. Mencken
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. H. L. Mencken
Coming on 10 December 2009 . . . a global warming article by Granny Jones

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