Here’s something from his keyboard, dated a couple of years ago, that might dispel what can’t possibly be regarded as even reasonable doubts about his intelligence and intentions.

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Editorial/48211

I finally get it. I feel so stupid. Absolutely everyone must have known but me.

While reading Philip Martin’s column in which he used 12 or 13 hyphens and as many column inches to say that he reads Playboy only for the articles, and only then if the articles are about the erudite, it suddenly came to me: Martin is not a real person. He is a creation of Michael Storey, just like the columns written by the long dead Otus the Head Cat.

I know, the clues should have been obvious: the run-on hyphenated sentences; the William F. Buckley-size words; the endless prattle about his disdain for conspicuous consumption interspersed with his reports to the readers of his most recent experience with old scotch and fine dining in Paris. The self-indulgent “I know” columns by themselves should have been a dead giveaway. Then it came to me. No newspaper would print the likes of those columns unless they were satirical. So my congratulations to Storey on a hoax well executed. I can stand to read the columns now that I know they aren’t serious. I do wish, however, that he would spend a little less time on the Head Cat column and try to make Phil as interesting as Otus. To borrow a phrase from the fictitious Martin, I know Phil Martin. I don’t know what he wants.

CONNIE M. MESKIMEN

“I finally get it. I feel so stupid. Absolutely everyone must have known but me.”

I imagine a lot of people feel the same way, Connie. Undoubtedly not as many as should, sadly.

The changes mean that there is more daylight time during the day, which means it is going to get hotter, earlier!

http://www.liberalsmustdie.com/2007/04/24/Dems+Daylight+Savings+Changes+Cause+Global+Warming.aspx

I hate those evil democrats!

1. Bush oked the change of DLS in 2005:
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html

2. Congress doesn’t dictate the rising of the sun, the rotation of the Earth does. Moving DLS back or forward doesn’t change the length of daylight, rather it changes what time we perceive sunrise (we reset our clocks, we do not move the earth).

Next time I’m in Arkansas and needs someone to represent me in FantasyLand court, I’ll look her up:

http://pview.findlaw.com/view/1096575_1

riiiiight.

no, i highly doubt this was satire. i’ve known a lot of lawyers. my mom used to work for a federal attourney. their idea of satire is a Pope joke on the golf course with minor political implications or some scarily “clever” FWD: passed to them by a long series of other lawyers in their Yahoo mail inboxes. if it was intended as satire, then this guy should keep his day job and not get into comedy or pointed social commentary. i can see some validity, albeit very minor, to the arguments that A. shifiting our peak time energy usage to different hours may have an impact on current energy consumption and that B. this may have been an attempt at creating the perception that it due to global warming it gets warmer “faster” as we enter the months where our planet receives the most sunlight

BUT

A. a few weeks of peak time usage change isn’t going to creat so much carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gasses that it would be noticed on even the most complex of scientific data collection models

AND

B. as someone else keenly pointed out, our calendar, clocks and well, government itself, are arbitrary concepts based on language that was arbitrarily created and really have no effect on the rising avg. temperature of our atmosphere which is a universal constant even if our descriptions of it are arbitrary.

no, the solution here is clearly to blame al gore for inventing the internet.

Only one small problem here…the only hot dry dessert I can think of is burnt cookies.

It must be nice to live in a state like Arizona, where they don’t observe Daylight Savings Time. They must have it made in the shade. I’m personally considering spending summers there from now on, to have a chance to cool down a bit.

I got to thinking, though, and came up with an idea. Perhaps the U.S. Congress could set it up so that certain places where people don’t live much (like the dessert) could get even more daylight, and we could place solar energy panels there. The rest of the country could have about 5 minutes less of daylight each day to balance things out, so we wouldn’t have any extra overall warming. Heck, why not have 24 hours of daylight in those small dessert regions of solar energy creation? We’d be off of foreigner’s oil in no time!! There’s really no down-side to this plan that I can think of.

The new liberal Congress sure talks the talk about saving the environment and reducing dependency on foreign energy imports. Let’s see if they can also walk the walk.

No matter what it is going to get dark at the same time, all we can do is decide what number we want our clocks to show when this moment happens.

Well, according to a lawyer in Arkansas.

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Editor…...

On the one hand I would hope that no one is this stupid and that this is a finely crafted bit of satire.

On the other hand I have met plenty of people in my day that I would expect to think something like this.

That is why I presented the picture sans opinion (aside from the title which is my attempt at humor)

If it is satire, its VERY subtle. Either way its hilarious.