One of our local columnists declared that the warm weather we've had in the Midwest was proof of global warming. I wonder if the folks from New Mexico to Florida would buy that?

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.