THAT 1984 TOUCH - ONE MORE TIME

Long time, no see, readers, but even Y.C. needs a vacation now and then.

Remember how rapidly in the subject novel the news propagated by the dictatorship could do a one-eighty? One day Q was the staunch ally, the next, it was shelling the Brits.

Unless we count NPR (Is the "P" for "public" or "pubic?"), our dictatorship has no official news service, but it doesn't need one. Rather, the BADministration issues a decree, and syncophants like AP, UP, ABC, CBS, NBC leap instantly onto the bandwagon and imbue the position, though they may have opposed it yesterday, with indefeasible rectitude.

A recent example is nuclear reactors for power production. A few years back, environmentalists and liberals were rabidly antipathetic towards them: they would explode and annihilate millions of us, the poisonous waste would seep into water supplies and annihilate millions of us.

According to B.O., well-versed in Science from his neighborhood-organizing days, and the sycophants, though, nuclear reactors are now a "green" alternative. ("Green" is such a stupid term; plants are green, and they produce oxygen and soak up treacherous carbon dioxide molecules.) Blockheads whose only grasp of climatology has sprung from falsified, incomplete, inaccurate, or selectively-collected data would leap from tall buildings to elude CO2.

I've told you before, so listen up, pilgrims. WATER VAPOR = CLOUDS IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT GREENHOUSE GAS, AND SCIENTISTS - HONEST ONES, I MEAN - CAN'T EVEN ASSESS ITS EFFECT ON GLOBAL TEMPERATURES.

Don't leap just yet.