Parents used to try to diminish their children’s complaints about dealing with inclement weather by claiming that they had it even worse when they were young. Climate change renders that time-honored tactic impractical.
In My Day, We Had “Snow”
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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Here in my tri-state area, we recently had some real snow. It lasted for a few days and is now gone. I suspect the “snow day” — which was actually a major plot point in one of the early “Simpsons” episodes — is gone now, done in by the double barrel of Zoom and greenhouse gases. One more thing to stick in the Ray Bradbury-sized hole where the memories of delightful things now hunted to extinction by civilization’s “progress” are relegated.
Of course, when I was a kid, we thought the democratic primaries actually decided the candidate that would run. That, of course, was long before Bernie Sanders helped expose that the dnc had rigged the whole process.
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