Ed Markey...Serious Thinker

John Tesh lookalike, Comrade Ed Markey (D-MA) was speaking to students in the Capitol the other day when he presented the well-thought-out proposition that Black Hawk Down was caused by man-created global warming.

While there's not a lot of serious dispute around the direction and broad implications of climate change, nor the proposition that the odds of a repeat would be diminished were Somalia the land of milk and honey, this kind of lie is pretty disgusting.

It'd be disingenuous of me to post this without acknowledging having read the Chicago Boyz (my new favorite blog) take on this, but let's not pretend that the place was a politically or ecologically stable place to begin with. While it's certainly plausible to argue that global warming could have exacerbated the existing problems, it's like crediting only my 30th cup of coffee today with the slight jitters I feel.

There are plenty of honest arguments to make about climate change without dumbing your arguments to children visiting the Capitol down to the point of outright deception. Markey's smarter than what he said suggests...and that's the problem.