Who Doesn’t Love a List?
By GAIL COLLINS
NYT
The ONLY SIX THINGS you need to know right now about the presidential race:
1) People really like stories that promise you there are only six things they need to know about something. It gives them hope that if they just finish your list, you will leave them alone to think about other critical current event issues, or “The Hunger Games.”
2) Rick Santorum appears to be the favorite in Saturday’s Louisiana primary.
Perhaps this oil-drilling, oil-spilling state likes his position on global warming. Which is that he has never believed in it. Never. Not even when he was in college and some of his friends would go out behind the fraternity house and do a little climate science. Young Rick preferred to stay in his room and look at pictures of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
“If you leave it to Nature, then Nature will do what Nature does, which is boom and bust,” he said last month at an energy summit meeting in Colorado.
(More here.)
NYT
The ONLY SIX THINGS you need to know right now about the presidential race:
1) People really like stories that promise you there are only six things they need to know about something. It gives them hope that if they just finish your list, you will leave them alone to think about other critical current event issues, or “The Hunger Games.”
2) Rick Santorum appears to be the favorite in Saturday’s Louisiana primary.
Perhaps this oil-drilling, oil-spilling state likes his position on global warming. Which is that he has never believed in it. Never. Not even when he was in college and some of his friends would go out behind the fraternity house and do a little climate science. Young Rick preferred to stay in his room and look at pictures of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
“If you leave it to Nature, then Nature will do what Nature does, which is boom and bust,” he said last month at an energy summit meeting in Colorado.
(More here.)
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